Does health care have enough doctors, nurses, and support staff to launch a variety of wellness initiatives to deal with America’s wellness deficit?
Fair question.
One South Jersey hospital thought it was a good idea to allow self-scheduling. The response was overwhelming, causing leadership to pull the program because they said they would need at least 100 more primary care physicians to meet the demand.
Population health deals with chronic disease but has been limited to Medicare joint ventures where the hospital assumes some risk and earns additional reimbursement based on achieving mutually agreeable patient outcomes.
Several hospitals participated in a population health program for Medicare patients in NE PA. Although they saved Medicare several million dollars by managing diabetes and coronary disease for their patients, they did not meet the threshold set by Medicare for additional reimbursement.
As a result, the hospitals chose not to participate in a new Medicare population heath program.
Historical wellness initiatives improved general wellness in the communities served through early testing to identify disease, recommended changes in diet, nutrition, and exercise, and alternative health therapies available on an OP basis.
Can the traditional wellness model be refined and expanded to meet new needs? Is it as simple as re-imagining health care and giving consumers what they want?
The Great Pandemic exposed America’s wellness deficit, but it also created opportunity to usher in new ways to improve our individual health..
Researchers have identified foods that extend the length of telomeres naturally by flooding the zone with clusters of adult stem cells which trigger new growth at the cellular level. This validates the holistic belief that specific food is medicine.
The health of mitochondria is key to longevity. Super seniors who live to be 100 or more have longer DNA strands, follow a specific diet and nutrition, exercise.regularly, and are fully engaged in mindful activities.
Researchers “have discovered a way to boost NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), a coenzyme at the cellular level that plays a crucial role in aging”. It is the anti-aging home run so many have sought for decades.
Anti-aging protocols will enable people to enjoy living much longer and have quality of life. This is the greatest advance in molecular science of this century.
What could a wellness initiative look like that embraces these two discoveries?
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