Wellvana partners with AdventHealth in Florida | Wellvana posted on the topic | LinkedIn (2024)

Wellvana proudly introduces Mauricio Calderon, a versatile leader with a knack for fostering growth across diverse industries and markets, to our finance team.🌹 He turned a wilting flower exporter into a blooming botanical business.🏠 Herefurbished areal estatefirminto a company with curb appeal. 🛫 He navigated a touch-and-go airline to high-flying performance.Mauricio now brings his wealth of experience and expertise to the realm of value-based care, where Wellvana pioneers innovative solutions to age-old healthcare challenges.https://lnkd.in/e7z7Scai

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🛌 Our nurses have to learn a skill that’s similar but not the same as working at the bedside.Supporting patients when there’s no body language or eye contact can be frustrating. But they find ways to connect. And that’s when the benefits kick in.Communication reveals they can’t get to their next appointment. Or they can’t afford their medication. Or they’re concerned about a new symptom.Our nurses are on it, every day, helping patients through it all.Thanks to Olga Mosy-Madugba and all of the nurses leading the way to Wellvana.#nursesweek

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🧠 You cannot overstate the emotional intelligence of nurses. They know when to listen, when to speak, and even when to offer silence. As our nurses support patients between appointments, it’s not uncommon for their calls to last an hour or more. Patients have much more on their plates than what usually appears on their medical record. #nursesweek

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So much of value-based care depends on better communication. Nurses are the connective tissue bringing more value to both providers and patients.Thanks to Vivian Hardison and all the nurses on our Care Team for what they do to keep patients on track between appointments. #nursesweek

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❤️At Wellvana, nurses are the heart of value-based care.When they start supporting a patient between appointments, the benefits become obvious —22% fewer hospitalizations, 16% lower medical spend.And most importantly, patients gain a compassionate and creative problem solver who advocates for their health. Thanks to Brandy Monroe and all of the nurses who are leading us to Wellvana. Happy National Nurses Week

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News: Today Wellvana announces a multi-year partnership with Wellcare, the Medicare business of Centene Corporation, to expand affordable, patient-centered primary healthcare to thousands of Wellcare Medicare Advantage members in Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Working together, Wellcare and Wellvana can advance equitable access to care, reduce unnecessary and expensive emergency department visits and improve access to quality care for risk-bearing Medicare and dual-eligible communities. Read more: https://wellvana.com/newsThanks to Michael Carson Tracy M. Henry Felton H. L. and Wellvana's Sherrie McCarthur-Kemp Kim Ebmeyer Daniel Graves Kevin Gallagher for their collaboration to accelerate patient-centered care delivery.

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🏥 Nearly 34 million times a year, a patient leaves a U.S. hospital. The circ*mstances are as unique as the individual patient. And the stakes are high for every single one.Fortunately, the best practice in patient care also happens to pay off in value-based care.📞 As part of our standard discharge management service for practices in full-risk contracts, Wellvana’s Care Team attempts to reach patients within 48 hours and maintains close contact for the next 30 days.Often, nurses find that small interventions help patients avoid an unnecessary return trip to the ER.📉 With our service — which patients never see a bill for — Wellvana has seen a 20% improvement in follow-up visits with primary care providers. And 30-day readmissions have dropped by 25%.Patients gain a clinical confidante — an extension of their provider team who listens, reminds and can even fast-track a follow-up visit.“I saw my doctor yesterday, and I told her how much I appreciated you and that you were my new best friend,” a patient in Texas told one of our nurses recently.More on our approach to curbing avoidable readmissions: https://lnkd.in/eHyxBPvD

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Accelerating value-based care is a team effort. We’re honored to link arms with the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) and AdventHealth to put forward some key recommendations.👩⚕️ Strengthening incentives to encourage participation in full-risk models.Without full-risk programs that essentially mirror capitation, there simply isn’t enough upside to justify the cost of clinical interventions needed to succeed in value-based care.This is why Wellvana puts all providers on a path to full-risk programs and on their behalf provides ongoing care management for patients with complex conditions, discharge management for anyone leaving the hospital, and hands-on assistance scheduling patients for preventive care.💾 Improving data integration and interoperability to assess success and make progress towards health equity goals.Data drives value-based care. It’s the only way to know what interventions are driving better outcomes and reducing costs. Original Medicare is quite good at making data accessible. The greater challenge is with Medicare Advantage. If value-based care is going to fully transform Medicare, MA plans will need to be quicker to share patient data with practices and their partners.🏠 Shaping value-based care programs to meet patients where they are and address the real-world needs that affect their wellbeing. Home-based care and telehealth go hand-in-hand with value-based care. They’ll never totally replace in-person visits with a PCP and certainly hospitals will always be needed. But as Terry Shaw says, they should be "the last whistlestop on the healthcare train, not the first.”More can be done to improve the patient experience by providing care in the setting their most comfortable, and that place tends to also be the highest-value site of care.Many experienced leaders — representing regulators, payors, health systems, patient advocates and academia — contributed to this digestible 4-page report.Download it here: https://lnkd.in/g6FbBHpHAdditional thanks to: America's Physician Groups American Academy of Family Physicians Accountable for Health American Medical Association AHIP Health Care Transformation Task Force Epic USAging Families USA PhRMA THE LEAPFROG NETWORK Commonwealth Care Alliance Tivity Health Physical Activity Alliance National Association of ACOs Texas Health Resources American Heart Association Meena Seshamani Ellen Lukens David Banks UnitedHealth Group AMAZON Health

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🔀 Success in value-based care comes down to delivering measurably better care for a lower cost. Clinical leadership is a must, and you need people who understand both sides of the care and cost equation.That’s why we’ve added Rajul Gandhi, PharmD, MBA to our executive team. As SVP for Medical Cost and Care Management, Rajul will lead our care teams, who are driving down hospitalizations by 22% and medical spend by 16%.⛑️ He’s driven by any opportunity to improve human life and has the experience at Walgreens and Carle Health to make a life-changing impact.He’s so much more than a pharmacist leader.✍️ He’s a voracious reader who also makes time for writing his great American novel. And you can find him shooting hoops or practicing Tai Chi.Ask him about his previous volunteer work with the Illinois Food Allergy Education Association and playing an extra in the genetically modified food thriller “Consumed.”🛣️ And while you’re at it, congratulate him for making his way to Wellvana.https://wellvana.com/team

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He may be nearly last on the Nashville Post InCharge alphabetical list, but this is your misfortune with the “W” name Kyle Wailes.Congratulations to our CEO for being recognized again in the 2024 list. While he’s ultimately in charge, he’s more of a coach than a boss.We’re big on stating our purpose. And his is making people better and helping them fulfill their own missions.He’s relentlessly optimistic and frustratingly even keeled. Whether he hit the jackpot or hit a roadblock, you’re going to get the same level-headed leader.Like any good coach, he’s prone to mantras.Purpose drives people. People drive the work.If you don’t mind it, then move on.The worst decision is the one you don’t make.Losing is learning. But expect to win.You can’t do it alone.It’s all about the team, even with who is in charge of Wellvana. So we also congratulate our board members and founders Devin Carty and Charlie Martin. Wellvana wouldn’t exist without them, and they continue to play an integral role in the company’s strategic growth.To all the Nashville healthcare leaders InCharge, we’re in good company.https://lnkd.in/geM6HiRZ

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