Transcripts For CSPAN2 C-SPAN2 Weekend 20130803 : vimarsana.

We collect data from old hospitals every morning. We got wake up with a list of everyone who has been admitted to the local hospital. We have a tremendous amount of local data sharing. The two young people you see here where volunteers that worked with us for a year. They worked as home coaches on the fields and behind them is one of our nurses. Turns out a lot of this work, we dont need more doctors, we need more committed nurses, social workers and young people on the front line knocking on doors, going to peoples homes, going to the bedside and helping patients navigate our incredibly complex Challenging Health care system. Her story is she and her family were overwhelmed by that ventilator, they were terrified of it. If you imagine what it is like hooked up to a ventilator and then anxiety was driving her back to the hospital over and over. The Insurance Company let her go to a longterm care unit for a little while, enough time for the family to get trained on how to manage the ventilator and form a care team with her primary care provider and palm enologist and she hasnt been back to the hospital. There are certain people who like to be in the hospital. If you are homeless living in tent city, having a flat screen tv and three meals is probably a good thing but for many patients they dont want to be in the hospital and the Current System ignores them. 25 of elderly medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days