Category: Lifespark COMPLETE

Since the death of her husband, Marla* had been living on her own with some help from her adult children and her power wheelchair. But between her atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, edema, and ongoing difficulty finding reliable in-home care providers, she knew she needed more support. So, in early March 2023, she moved to […]

Early in the pandemic, Lifespark stood up a hospital-at-home program rapidly designing and implementing a unique option for customers to receive hospital-level care at home. Created in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Lifespark wasn’t concerned with reimbursement but helping people quickly to shorten hospital stays, ensure the availability of beds and supplies for acutely ill […]

When we think about a geriatric consult there’s an assumption that it’s already part of what primary care delivers when you work with seniors. It’s not —traditional primary care is missing the geriatrics part. The play on this question — Geriatric Consult Anyone? — was meant to create intrigue. The reality is no one asks […]

Jim Lynn was just seven years old when his father died, leaving his mother to raise six children on her own. Three months later, in July 1949, he was in a car crash that left his family alive but sprawled unconscious on a lawn. “With no father, and my mother in the hospital, I was […]

When Nina, 83, enrolled in Lifespark COMPLETETM in 2021, she wasn’t struggling with chronic health issues, she didn’t need in-home care, and she wasn’t interested in moving to a senior community. In fact, when Candice Pautzke, RN, Life Manager, first met her client, Nina told her she was doing fine. But over time, as they […]

In 2019, when Bruce’s beloved wife, Beryl (“Bootz”), began showing more advanced symptoms of dementia, he was determined to care for her at home. And for the next three years, he did just that. After Bootz died in October 2021, his son said, “Well, Dad, mission accomplished.” Bruce credits Lifespark for helping him achieve that […]

Throughout his 35-year career, Dr. Nick Schneeman, Lifespark Chief Medical Officer, has continually been struck by the wide variance in what people want when faced with serious illness. “It doesn’t matter if it’s heart failure, cancer, or dementia, two people at the same stage of disease with the same perceived level of suffering will make […]

This is a serious question. Do we as health care organizations, payors, health systems, providers – people – go far enough to reach the person we are serving and impact change right at their level? Do the existing person-centric efforts go far enough or is it just lip service to stay on top of the […]