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Pete Carlson, VP, Acute Response, Creating Urgency Around How We Reduce Unnecessary ER Visits

  • Jun 25, 2024
  • Meaghan Puglisi
  • 1-min Read

High utilization of the hospital system continues to have a rippling effect on the work we and others in health care face. Visiting the ER shouldn’t be the default alternative when issues arise in between visits, and yet for many seniors it is.

The biggest area of over usage can be found in the emergency room (ER) where more than 50-55% of visits are unnecessary. As we’ve shared, here in Minnesota, new data shows that one in six days of inpatient care in the hospital has been deemed unnecessary – that means 65,000 people who went to the hospital didn’t have to.

Lifespark’s complete senior health approach was uniquely designed to meet these gaps and solve the current overutilization crisis and support seniors at home. From a complete senior health experience perspective, focusing on preventing unnecessary ER or hospital visits is a key area we can influence. The result: significantly better health outcomes and lowering costs for those we serve and partner with. That’s why we have added Urgent Response Services as an integrated part of the Lifespark COMPLETE (LSC) product.

Read on for the full news release…

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