Medication reconciliation and education to promote adherence
Medication Safety
Returning to the Hospital
Many patients discharge home with multiple, new or changed medications. They are confused by what they should take or not take, causing medication errors or complications. Medication is one of the most common reasons seniors return to the hospital after an inpatient stay.
How Does Elara Caring Help?
Our skilled home health team conducts thorough medication reconciliation at every start of care to help prevent errors and confusion about ordered medications. This process also helps to promotes adherence, fosters treatment engagement and decreases unnecessary hospitalizations.
- Decreases transposing errors
- Promotes adherence
- Enhances accuracy
- Optimizes appropriate medication regimen
- Fosters treatment engagement
- Decreases unnecessary hospitalizations
- Reconciliation: Our clinicians identify polypharmacy, contraindications and mitigate duplication errors. Using state of the art technology, we are alerted for potential errors and can communicate timely with the physician to reduce rehospitalizations.
- Education: On the purpose, dosage and side effects to promote compliance
- Pharmacy Partnerships: We can work with pharmacies to deliver medications for patients with limited resources or transportation issues.
- Medication Planner: Provided to all patients
Call Us First is vital to eliminating emergency room visits and rehospitalizations.
- 24/7/365 availability
- Reduces emergency room visits and hospitalizations
- Increases patient comfort by managing symptoms in the home
- Relieves anxiety because someone is always available to help
- Provides intervention before a health decline becomes a crisis
Provider Resources
We can help support your patients wherever they are in their health care journey. Explore our skilled home health provider resources.
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