Centennial, CO (BDP) June 10, 2009 – Families struggle each day to attend to daily living requirements. For the majority of us the high cost of health insurance and basic health care is well beyond financial reach, and is therefore, unattainable. Requests for federal and state assistance have escalated over the past few years, forcing legislators to find or create funding sources to sustain many local, state, and federal programs, providing assistance to the uninsured.  Our hospital emergency rooms are crowded, the numbers of uninsured and underinsured citizens seeking medical attention is staggering, with triage nurses manning phones and managing waiting areas nearing capacity, the wait times can be excessive and unbearable.

 

Medical wellness checks provide our seniors and their providers an ability to stay in touch through weekly phone calls; thereby, increasing efficiencies through communication. These wellness checks afford both patient and health care provider time to suggest preventative wellness activities, and perhaps, during the course of conversation, identify symptoms that may require an office visit. “We have responded to the requests for additional support from our service subscribers, to include wellness checks, with our medical alert equipment services,” in a statement offered by Liz Sanchez, COO, Blue Diamond Protection LLC. “Our medical alert station operators provide superb 24/7 call service; however, they lack the medical background to support our medial wellness reach out program. By adding health care staff to improve our operator based service outreach, particularly to rural communities, we have implemented a positive approach to health care triage. I see our efforts encouraging a vital connection between patient and their health care provider. Services fees are based on the client’s ability to pay.”

 

Preventative wellness checks helps lower health care costs by minimizing emergency room visits, reducing the need of costly health care procedures, and extended hospital stays.