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Clara Maass Medical Center- Residence-Based Healthcare for Homebound Seniors
Using a prevention-driven approach, the program expands access to quality medical care and delivers services such as assistance with insurance, medication, transportation and other social services. Chronic disease management is offered to homebound seniors through weekly visits with a nurse practitioner, medical assistant and pharmacist who come to their residences.
What is it?
Using a prevention-driven approach, the program expands access to quality medical care and delivers services such as assistance with insurance, medication, transportation and other social services. Chronic disease management is offered to homebound seniors through weekly visits with a nurse practitioner, medical assistant and pharmacist who come to their residences.
Who is it for?
Medically underserved homebound seniors in the medical center’s service area.
Why do they do it?
Preventative care improves seniors’ quality of life and ability to live independently; in addition, it can reduce the number of unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
Impact
By 2010, more than 500 seniors in nine urban housing communities received preventative care services including health care assessments, screenings, medication reviews, laboratory testing, imaging, cardiac care and rehabilitation.
Contact: Jane Kessler
Vice President, Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation
Telephone: 973-450-2278
E-mail: jkessler@sbhcs.com
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