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Debbie Johnston

Founder & Partner, Serenity First Hospice Care · 1 appearance on the record.

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Debbie Johnston is the founder and partner at Serenity First Hospice Care and the founder of Care Advantage, Inc. A registered nurse and author, she expanded Care Advantage to roughly 3,000 employees before selling the business in 2017.

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Johnston: Home care is always the least expensive healthcare option
“No matter what kind of care comes down the pike, we know that home care is always going to be the least expensive, and it's the push for facilities to keep people in their home.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 5:44 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
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Johnston observed hospice patients becoming younger and more numerous
“We had a fair number of hospice patients, and unfortunately, they seem to get younger and younger and more and more.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 7:38 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
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Johnston: Care Advantage has roughly 3,000 field employees
“We have 3000, probably, field employees, and then each office has anywhere from three to five people in it that manage those people.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 10:29 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
Disclosure
Care Advantage charges approximately $20 per hour for companion CNAs
“It runs about for a companion CNA about 20 dollars an hour.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 4:56 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
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Johnston saw hospitals discharge up to 70 unready sick patients daily
“Running outpatient services for a hospital, and I saw it go from where we went and had zero outpatients to like, 70 a day, and we were pushing people out, and they were sick, and I'm like, oh my gosh, these people aren't ready to go home”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 6:43 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
Disclosure
Most private duty in-home care is paid out-of-pocket, not by insurance
“Well, a lot of it is private pay. It is unfortunate that our third party payers don't always pay for the care advantage side, the private duty side. That tends to come from the patient.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 8:44 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
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Johnston: Care Advantage serves roughly 500 active patients
“We probably have 500 patients, and I think I'm being conservative.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 11:53 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
Disclosure
Debbie Johnston: Care Advantage offers a $69 hospital discharge package
“We have a 69 dollar special where we come to the hospital, pick you up, take you by the pharmacy, set you up in your home, and make sure everything's good, and you're good, and then we leave.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 12:34 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston
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ABC's Secret Millionaire films participants 14 to 16 hours daily
“In terms of what people don't know about those kind of shows is they film you for 14 to 16 hours a day and ask you the same questions over and over again, and it's just physically, it was physically and emotionally very taxing.”
Debbie Johnston Nov 13, 2016 ▶ 14:15 EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston

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EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Nov 13, 2016 9m
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