H.E.R.'s HEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS

Our Objective

Allow our clients to offer a deeper, culturally-attuned care experience without the need to increase their own staff count.

We collaborate with:
  • Federally Qualified and Rural Health Centers
  • Hospitals and Integrated health systems
  • Managed care organizations
  • Public health departments and public agencies
  • Home healthcare and Hospice Organizations
to plan and implement strategies to address urban and rural healthcare inequities, with initiatives focused on maternal and infant care, palliative care for homebound seniors, and community-based blood pressure management.

THE H.E.R. MATERNAL HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVE

Lack of access to equitable and respectful maternal care is at crisis levels in the United States and elsewhere. We seek to improve maternal care by giving expectant mothers autonomous access to perinatal and postpartum services, education and supportive services needed for healthy pregnancies and birth outcomes.
Connected care is provided via the H.E.R.-GTS Platform, the H.E.R. Maternal Care App, and H.E.R. Community Care Kits containing a BP cuff, thermometer, a weight scale, a heart, SPO2 and sleep monitoring device, and glucose monitor as needed.

H.E.R. Maternal Health App With CareOrbit Education

  • Real-time care team monitoring
  • HIPAA-compliant telehealth video outreach
  • Fully-integrateable with any EMR platform
  • Delivers patients and families virtual education and motivation via CareOrbit maternal virtual mentor

H.E.R. Maternal Health Goals

Post-partum, the team stays available to provide the same level of care/guidance in support of each mother and her child for the child’s first year of life.

  • Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care
  • Decrease the number of low and very low birth weight babies
  • Decrease the number of pre-term births (< 37 weeks) among the mothers we serve
  • Decrease the overall incidence of infant mortality
  • Improve expectant mother’s experiences of care during pregnancy and one year thereafter
  • Decrease costs associated with maternal and infant care
  • Decrease barriers to care.
  • Address key health literacy needs
  • Improve maternal care advocacy
  • Decrease staff load with calls to clinic
  • Decrease patient anxiety and confusion
  • Address complexities in ways patients can relate to
  • Connect expecting and new moms with resources to support their immediate needs

H.E.R. NON-MEDICAL COMMUNITY-BASED PALLIATIVE CARE STRATEGIES

The care of frail elders with chronic disease or significant disabilities is a major challenge for both health care systems, health care professionals, families and caregivers.

Racial and ethnic minorities in low-income communities experience higher prevalence of chronic illness, yet, are less likely to access palliative care and hospice.

They wish to live as independently as they can, for as long as they can—at home.   Remote monitoring as a supplement to scheduled doctors’ appointments can make a difference in their care at home.

H.E.R.’s Community Care Connection nurse practitioner-led remote monitoring teams  monitor and transmit health data and report symptoms to providers via the H.E.R.-GTS Platform and the related App, allowing for early detection through critical alerts about changes in health conditions.

Data collected overtime enables providers to better manage and treat chronic conditions in a way that is timely, meaningful, and realistic for patients suffering from cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure, COPD, diabetes and hypertension.

H.E.R.’s “Stay-at-Home” Strategies also include:

  • Use of AI technologies to prevent and detect elders’ falls at home.
  • Links to supportive services to address social determinants of health via the related App.
  • Virtual and Friendly Visits and Complimentary Alternative Modalities (or CAM— for instance, food-is-medicine, meditation, tai chi, arts and crafts, music, and the like, to promote wellness and combat loneliness.

Goal: lower costs, decreased hospitalizations and ICU days, and increased hospice utilization while improving care quality and patient satisfaction.

Goal: enable frail elders with chronic disease or significant disabilities to as independently as possible—at home through improved access to care and supportive services.

Goal: Reduce loneliness and isolation.

"CUT IT!" - THE H.E.R. BLOOD PRESSURE CAMPAIGN

H.E.R.’s Community Care Connection community-based “Cut It!” Initiative will address through innovation the epidemic of unrecognized high blood pressure in underserved urban and rural communities.

The program, modeled after a successful community-based blood pressure program operating in Oakland, CA., is centered in barbershops where community health workers deployed by Community Care Connection administer blood pressure checks bi-weekly or monthly.

Participants will be given a me.Health blood pressure cuff and a BodiMetrics Circul+ Ring to monitor their BP between visits.  Community health workers train participants on how to use the cuff and calibrate the ring for monitoring while on the move.

Goal: promote awareness and self-care.

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