FOR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS
OVERALL GOALS in PRIMARY CARE
1. “TRIPLE AIM” (Better Health, Better Care, Lower Costs)
2. Promote healthy living practices (health and well-being)
3. Optimize participation in life
4. Maximize health and wellness
HOW WE HELP PHYSICIANS HELP PATIENTS
1. Address broader array of patient issues
2. Prevent or reduce dysfunction/disability/injuries
3. Promote health and wellness
4. Facilitate lifestyle adaptations when needed
5. Enhance coping abilities
6. Maximize abilities in daily life
7. Foster greater patient self-involvement in health care
HOW WE HELP THE PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE
1.
Improve ability to manage chronic care conditions
Improve ability to manage chronic care conditions2.Improve accessibility (more rapid response to support
Improve accessibility (more rapid response to support patient’s functional needs)
3.Improve patient’s “experience of care”
Improve patient’s “experience of care”4.Improve patient’s health outcomes
Improve patient’s health outcomes5.Provide more comprehensive early intervention service
Provide more comprehensive early intervention service programs
6.Reduce costs (expenditures due to overutilization)
Reduce costs (expenditures due to overutilization)7.Reduce impact of continuing disease process
Reduce impact of continuing disease process8.Reduce patient recidivism
Reduce patient recidivismIMPROVE BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY
1.Extend ability of medical staff to work “at top of license”
Extend ability of medical staff to work “at top of license” - MD, DO
- Nurse practitioners, Nurses
- Others
- Physician assistants
2.Improve Physician's
Improve Physician's- Ability to change patient’s unhealthy habits or choices
- Ability to educate patients
- Capacities in the office
- Satisfaction in work accomplishments
- Work life
3.Improve office efficiencies and effectiveness
Improve office efficiencies and effectiveness4.Reduce physician burn out
Reduce physician burn outIMPROVE PATIENT’S OUTCOMES
(Health and Wellness)
1. Address of patient’s performance issues
2. Improve patient
- Medical regimen compliance
- Poor coping skills
- Safety
- Satisfaction
- Self-management skills and abilities
- Understanding of health conditions and affect on life
3. Identify functional factors affecting quality of life
4. Reduce the impact of disease process
5. Recommend assistive devices to support abilities
6. Provide caregiver support
7. Identify barriers and behaviors that impact health and |
safety
8. Prevent development of disease, disability, and illness
BENEFITS OF OUR SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
1. Immediate accessibility
2. Coordinated team approach
3. Comprehensive services
4. Improve
- patient satisfaction
- patient health
- health outcomes
5.Greater responsiveness to patient’s
- Preferences
- Needs
- Values
GENERAL REASON FOR REFERRAL TO OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
1. Newly developing medical condition
2. Early intervention
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Identify risks and barriers
- Identify functional challenges
- Identify potential for functional decline
- Replace outdated, maladaptive behaviors/habits
- Teach new skills, behaviors and habits
3. Prevent development of
- Disability
- Disease
- Functional decline/loss
- Illness
4. Promote medical regimen compliance
5. Identify risk factors to reduce them
RISK FACTOR REDUCTION
Risk factors affect safety, health, well being and/or quality of life, caused by unhealthy
- Choices
- Habits
- Lifestyle
- Routines
Risk factors affected by barriers
- Behavioral
- Cognitive
- Developmental
- Environmental
- Physical
- Psychological
- Social
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