Beacon Health Partners Has a Remedy For What’s Ailing Health Care

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act and years of change in the healthcare industry have resulted in a trend toward hospital consolidation. Many private practice physicians have found it beneficial to become acquired by a hospital system, where they forgo independence to eliminate the burden of navigating a new and confusing atmosphere.

Some primary and specialty practices have held out against the wave of consolidation, preferring to remain independent. Yet, many of these practices report difficulties keeping up with the latest information technology, regulatory requirements, and administrative details. That’s where a strategic partner like Beacon comes in.

The most important question remains: How will changes in the healthcare industry ultimately affect patient care?

Beacon Health Partners seeks to reconcile to physicians the benefits of remaining independent while offering them much-needed support that serves the very purpose of the healthcare industry: providing high quality, cost effective patient care and ultimately realizing a healthier population.

Beacon Health Partners operates a three-pronged approach, focusing on creating healthier physician practices and healthier patient practices, in an effort to improve population health. By taking both pragmatic and innovative steps to accomplish its vision, Beacon brings a new and exciting solution to the realities of modern healthcare.

The benefits to participating doctors are manifold. In addition to shared savings opportunities and enhanced rates linked to quality efforts, Beacon offers its physicians group purchasing rates for medical supplies, consultative services for more efficient administration, including improved office workflow and experienced digital integration, free leadership training and special educational programs that enable them to deliver better care more efficiently while increasing their profitability.

There is a collaborative effort for patients in Beacon Health Partners between a patient’s current care providers and the Beacon care team to maximize health. This manifests by improving medication and preventive screening compliance, better communication across the continuum of care, easier access to their doctors, reduced out of pocket spending resulting from fewer encounters with the healthcare system, and better health education. A result of this attention leads to a significantly improved patient experience.

Through the creation of a robust collaborative network, the positive impact Beacon Health Partners has on the overall population is evidenced by an increase in quality care, fewer gaps in care for its entire population, and easier and more effective data sharing through a more complete infrastructure. The result is greater population oversight with fewer patients falling through the cracks. Under this model, the transition from disease-driven care to a focus on prevention and wellness has the potential to transform the way we live in a very real way.

Beacon Health Partners is excited to take the healthcare industry into a new realm, helping to heal a broken system so that doctors can do what they’re here to do: deliver the best possible care to their patients.

Please visit www.chsli.org or call 1-855-CHS-4500.

Neuroscience: Beyond Brain Surgery

Although many may associate neuroscience primarily with brain surgery, this advanced field of medicine encompasses a much wider scope. Clinical neuroscience focuses on the mechanisms that underlie diseases and disorders of the central nervous system—the brain, spine and nerves throughout the body. Under the leadership of Chief of Neurosurgery Kevin Mullins, MD, expert physicians provide treatments in areas ranging from neurosurgery and neurology to neuroradiology and neuro-oncology.

Click here to watch a video on neuroscience

Thousands of patients with a broad spectrum of neurological conditions, including spinal disorders, brain tumors and stroke, have been successfully treated by CHS’s neuroscience team. Visit www.chsli.org to search for a neurosurgeon, neurologist, orthopedic spine surgeon, pain management specialist, or physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist. For a free copy of our Services Guide, call 1-855-CHS-4500.

Caring for Wounds

If you or a loved one has a wound that hasn't begun to heal within a month or hasn't healed entirely in two months, you may have what is known as a “chronic” or “non-healing” wound.

There are many factors that can cause a wound to become chronic and  many types of wounds. Some wounds are associated with complications from diabetes or poor circulation. Other

result from pressure ulcers and trauma. Chronic, non-healing wounds can have serious health consequences and may adversely affect your quality of life.

At Catholic Health Services we have center’s for wound Healing and hyperbaric treatment conveniently located across Long Island. Our team of experienced wound care specialists will work with you and your physician to assess your symptoms, determine the underlying cause of your non-healing wound, and customize the most effective treatment plan to stimulate healing. Our treatment plans are designed to complement the care your own physician provides, ensuring that your health care team is always working together to provide the treatment that’s right for you. Most treatments are covered by Medicare/Medicaid, HMOs and other private insurance plans.

CHS also offers hyperbaric medicine and wound healing at St. Joseph and St. Catherine of Siena. Please visit www.chsli.org or call 1-855-CHS-4500.

CHS: Healthy Sundays

If you need access to convenient, free health care, then read further. CHS provides free health screenings, immunizations and education to the medically underserved all year round. Since 2005, the system’s Healthy Sundays program has been delivering these vital services to residents in their own communities, partnering with churches and other community-based organizations across Nassau and Suffolk. CHS employees volunteer thousands of hours each year to staff these events and make a difference in others’ lives.

Our teams provide blood pressure, cholesterol and other screenings, as well as offering immunizations and seminars, reaching thousands of people who otherwise would be without health care. Those with elevated, or high, screening results are referred to one of the Bishop McHugh Health Centers located in Bay Shore and Hicksville or to a CHS hospital, where they are treated, regardless of their ability to pay.

Click on “Community Health” at www.chsli.org to read more about Healthy Sundays or view the events calendar for details on a free health screening in your community or call 1-855-CHS-4500.