What is Population Health?
Spring Hills Population Health is a blend of clinical and social support for patients throughout their healthcare journey. The Population Health journey begins when someone is admitted to Spring Hills where a clinical and social work assessment is performed to evaluate how to best serve patients with the goal to get them healthy and keep them healthy. Gloria Berwick, The Vice President of Operations for Population Health described the program to be similar to that of GPS navigation. Before you embark on your journey, route options with different lengths of time, traffic factors and tolls. With Population Health, as the navigator, we help you decide which is the best healthcare route to take. Over the course of the patient journey, Population Health provides many touch points to engage the patients and make sure they have what they need when they are discharged home and is available once the patient is home for coordinated services, to provide education and to help prevent hospital readmissions.
What makes this program so special?
Apart from the focused care that a patient will experience in the program, the technology available to patients is incredible. The program highlights the use of non-invasive hemodynamic technology for cardiac monitoring that enables the nurses and doctors to look at an actionable amount of data to best treat and rehabilitate each and every patient. This is the first time in the state of New Jersey that this advanced technology is being used in a post acute care center. With the access to this technology, our centers are able to provide hospital level care in the post acute environment.
Why Spring Hills?
The comprehensive cardiac program was first started by Dr. Andrew Pecora and Monica Wallace, the current Clinical Director of Programs at Spring Hills. As the first program of its kind in the state of New Jersey, they yielded promising results and through the program were able to decrease the hospital readmission rates of cardiac patients. “Luckily the vision Alex Markowits, Founder and President/CEO for Spring Hills had included the comprehensive cardiac program” says Dr. Pecora and seeing it launch, well, “excited doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel.”
Spring Hills Post Acute Care Livingston, NJ (September 16, 2020) – Last Wednesday marked the official launch of our Comprehensive Cardiac End2End Program. The day began with the official signing of the program certificate by Dr. Andrew Pecora. Joining Dr. Pecora in the celebration was Soffy Vilson, Vice President of Quality Assurance, Steven Salvanto, Administrator at Livingston Post Acute and Dr. Hawthorne, Cardiologist.
Spring Hills Post Acute Care Woodbury, NJ (September 21, 2020) – Yesterday was the official launch of our Comprehensive Cardiac End2End Program. The entire center made the launch special from the beautiful bouquets of flowers and heart shaped balloons, to the ribbon cutting and official signing, it was a fantastic day for everyone who worked so hard on the program. The official signing of the program certificate was performed by Monica Wallace, Clinical Director of Programs. Joining in on the celebration was Alex Markowits, Founder & President/CEO and our visionary leader, Dr. Peter Bulik, Cardiologist, Gloria Berwick, The Vice President of Operations for Population Health, Joseph Lausido, Sr. VP of Strategic Development, Michael Guglielmo, Administrator at Woodbury Post Acute Care, Deedra Austin-Thomas, Director of Nursing at Woodbury, Kim Komoroski, Director of Compliance and Quality Improvement, Michelle Benfield RN,BSN, Territory Manager – iRythm – Cardiac and Lauren McDowell, Nurse Practitioner at Woodbury Post Acute Care. The day was filled with celebration and concluded with the admission of the programs first patients.
Comprehensive Cardiac Program in Wayne (September 30, 2020) September 30th was the successful launch of the Comprehensive Cardiac Program in Wayne. Thank you to all of our fantastic team members that made the launch of this program possible! We can’t wait to see what the future holds for the expansion of this and other disease specific programs.