Debbie Johnston: Care Advantage offers a $69 hospital discharge package
Debbie Johnston · EP 477: 3,000 Employees, 30+ Years in Business for Medical Care And Peace of Mind with CEO Debbie Johnston · Nov 13, 2016 · at 12:34
Debbie Johnston, CEO and founder of home healthcare company Care Advantage, describes how the company prices and tailors short-term transition services for patients leaving the hospital.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“We had a fair number of hospice patients, and unfortunately, they seem to get younger and younger and more and more.”
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“We have 3000, probably, field employees, and then each office has anywhere from three to five people in it that manage those people.”
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“It runs about for a companion CNA about 20 dollars an hour.”
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“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”