AAHCM Mini Documentary

TRANSCRIPT:

Narrator
Nearly two million frail and homebound older adults aren’t able to visit their doctor’s office. This group of patients often end up in the emergency department when they experience a health care crisis that may have been prevented. By bringing health care providers to patients in their homes, complex chronic health conditions can be managed before they become an emergency.

Angela DiGiorgio
I didn’t even know that they made house calls or anything. I thought that was, like, way before I was even thought of. I didn’t even know they had that program.

Alycyne DiGiorgio
It was very difficult. Nobody could take me. And I’d have to go by ambulance, and they charge charge you.

Kathryn E. Corbet, MSN, APN-C
By taking care of people in their own home, their quality of life is so much better because they they know that you’re going to be there with them. It doesn’t matter the time, of the day, the day of the week. There’s always somebody available twenty four seven. And by me being able to come into the home, I’m being able to provide them with the support that they need in their own home to remain independent at home and to be able to age at home without sending them to the hospital, without having to send them to an assisted living or into a nursing home. The people want to stay home and that is our goal.

Linda V. DeCherrie, MD
Yeah. How are you feeling today? Being homebound crosses so many socioeconomic status, race, gender. It’s very equalizing in that respect. And so for the the patient, I think the one of the big things is that, you know, they don’t have to exert themselves or get, more confused or have to use an ambulance to get in to see a primary care doctor, who then is gonna refer them for x, y, and z, and they’re gonna be now going out for multiple appointments, which can be very challenging. We see so much more by going into the home. In an office, of course, every doctor is going to ask what medications are you taking, and the patient’s either gonna have a list or note it off the top of their head, or maybe they brought it in with them. But when you’re in the home and you see this whole pile of medicines, and you’re like, wait, which ones of these are you taking? And then what’s what’s that pile over there? It it really shows so much more, like, what is actually going on because you’re there and you can see what, you know, what the patient’s experiencing day to day with, in this example, medications. But it could be other things as well, mobility.

Alycyne DiGiorgio
And I look forward to seeing Kathy. When she comes, she explains everything to me, which, you know, what’s my health wise. I really, you know, appreciate that. I really do.

Angela DiGiorgio
Well, the biggest benefit is mostly her safety. You know what I mean? So she’s doesn’t have to worry about falling outside. She doesn’t have to worry about going out in the snow, the rain, any of it. Kathy comes to here, answers all her questions, orders her medicine, and we go get it for her.

Jeanne Frank
The people, the nurses and the doctors who come are lovely. They take good care, and they’re they have a great sense of humanity.

Narrator
Specially trained HBPC providers improve a patient’s quality of life and allow them to receive compassionate care in their own home. In the process, reducing emergency department visits, and lowering costs associated with readmissions, medication errors, and other other avoidable complications.

Kathryn E. Corbet, MSN, APN-C
By providing home based medical care, to the clients, it alleviates a lot of concerns of the caregivers being the caregiver being the spouse, the children, the grandchildren, the great grandchildren having to take people to the to the, doctor’s office.

Alycyne DiGiorgio
When he mentioned him and I met Kathy, and I she’s a godsend. She really is. I mean, I I could sit here and I get myself all filled up to talk about it, you know, but Kathy has been great to me, and I appreciate it. And I hope she knows that I I do appreciate her coming.