Hospital at Home
Vascular Access Cases
Hospital at Home Vascular Access Cases highlight some of the interesting Nurse Clinicians in Action cases that Vascular Wellness clinicians have encountered and participated in treatment. Hospital at Home programs enable some patients to receive treatment from their home rather than in a hospital. Our hospital-credentialed clinicians provide the same quality, timely and affordable clinical vascular access services at the patient’s bedside for Hospital at Home patients as they do for patients in all healthcare settings. We typically perform prescribed procedures the same day, which helps speed patient therapies and recovery, and helps increase patient and family satisfaction with their care teams and facilities.
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Hospital at Home Vascular Access Cases: A Hospital at Home patient had initially presented at a hospital Emergency Department and was diagnosed with several comorbidities, including sepsis and thrombocytopenia, a condition that occurs when the platelet count in a patient’s blood is too low. After reviewing the patient’s situation and treatment plan, the care team determined she was a candidate for their Hospital at Home program, and the patient was able to return home to continue her treatment plan. After several days of in-home treatment, labs were ordered to confirm the patient’s healing progress. The medical provider arrived at the patient’s home to draw blood, but unfortunately, the patient’s veins were depleted, which made gaining vascular access particularly challenging. After more than 10 unsuccessful attempts, which resulted in numerous and unnecessary painful needle sticks, Vascular Wellness was consulted to assist. After assessing the patient’s vasculature, the clinician then quickly and effortlessly achieved vascular access on the first attempt utilizing ultrasound guidance. The patient was thrilled and stated, “I didn’t even feel it, I was expecting to be poked a lot more that that!” She also told the Vascular Wellness nurse clinician that she had made her day.
Hospital at Home Vascular Access Cases:
Key Points
Our large footprint of experts are available 7 days a week, including after-hours and holidays, making Vascular Wellness a valued partner for any Hospital at Home program. We maintain a 3-hour average response time, and 95% of our calls are serviced the same day and within 6 hours or less.
Our extensive geographic coverage and mobile model means we regularly perform both standard and advanced vascular access procedures at the patient’s bedside every day, whether the patient is in their home as a part of a Hospital at Home program or in a hospital or other healthcare setting.
Vascular Wellness clients only pay for ordered procedures, and there is no cost to partner with us and simply have us at the ready if and when needed. In Hospital at Home programs, a delay in gaining vascular access can not only cause a potentially serious and costly delay in treatment for the patient, but it also can create a domino effect and delay treatment for subsequent patients.
Vascular Wellness clinicians are Vascular Access Board Certified, skill tested, and verified semiannually, and can rely on the breadth of their intensive training to achieve successful access every time, including in difficult intravenous access (DIVA) patients or those with fragile veins, which is common in the elderly population or patients with comorbidities.
Our clinicians are salaried rather than a pay-per-procedure model, and are encouraged to spend all time necessary to perform a comprehensive medical history review to ensure the clinically appropriate line before sticking, to answer all questions about the procedure and care and maintenance, and to ensure the patient is comfortable and has the best possible experience.
Because of our aggregate and diverse experience across hundreds of thousands of lines placed with an exceptional success rate, we are often called on to successfully gain vascular access after failed attempts by other clinicians. We proudly maintain a 98+% success rate with a 0% insertion-related infection rate across all types of vascular access lines.
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As Vascular Access Experts, Vascular Wellness is the largest provider in the southeast of comprehensive vascular access services, including standard and advanced line placement, pediatrics, program management, education, training, and infection control and prevention to all healthcare settings such as Hospitals, Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals, Hospital at Home programs, Skilled Nursing Facilities and CCRCs, Surgical & Outpatient Centers, Hospice, and At-Home. We support a 98+% Success Rate with 0% insertion-related infection rate across all lines, with an average response time of 3 hours. We help our clients improve patient outcomes, enable faster therapy, reduce costs, infections, and readmissions, decrease hospital length of stay, and eliminate transportation.
NURSE CLINICIANS IN ACTION case summaries involve challenging situations or intriguing clinical presentations where Vascular Wellness was able to create clinically appropriate access promptly, minimize sticks, and place the right line at the right time, the first time.
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Vascular Wellness provides comprehensive, quality, timely, and innovative vascular access services, including standard and advanced line placement, pediatrics, program management, education, training, and infection control and prevention to all healthcare settings such as Tertiary Hospitals, Community Hospitals, Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals, Hospital at Home Programs, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Surgical and Outpatient Centers, Hospice, and At-Home care. We support a 98+% Success Rate with 0% Insertion-Related Infection Rate across all lines, with an average response time of 3 hours. We help our clients improve patient outcomes, enable faster therapy, reduce costs, infections, and readmissions, decrease hospital length of stay, and reduce transportation expenses.
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