Relentless Health Value

I’ll tell you what I wanted to figure out: How does care improve in SNF (skilled nursing) or assisted living facilities? My starting point in contemplating a possible path toward this goal was advanced primary care. There is so much talk and evidence these days about advanced primary team-based care and how much patients like it, the low-value care it could potentially prevent downstream, and the patient outcomes it can create. But in general, these advanced primary care models are talked about for patients in the community, not really for the intensely vulnerable populations inside facilities. So, where do these worlds collide if they do, in fact, collide? In this health care podcast, I’m speaking with Grace Terrell, MD. Dr. Terrell is a practicing general internist. She is also chief executive officer of Eventus WholeHealth, which is a company that is focused on medical care for medically vulnerable adults, specifically those who live in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, or reside at h