ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Visiting Nurse Health System has entered a preferred provider agreement with Resurgia Health Solutions, an Atlanta-based, physician house-call medical practice providing primary and interim care for homebound patients.
The partnership between Visiting Nurse and Resurgia uniquely provides seamless care coordination, making it easier for physicians to administer care in a patient’s home or the place the patient calls home. Because Resurgia physicians make house calls, homebound patients and residents in senior living communities no longer have to leave the safety and comfort of home to see a doctor. Additionally, staff caring for these patients now have one point of contact, and information is easily exchanged between the providers.
This partnership allows high-acuity patients within the 26-county Visiting Nurse service area to remain at home. Patients will be contacted within 48 hours to schedule an appointment. Timely physician follow up post-discharge, coupled with the convenience of these services being offered in the home, will help the hospitals avoid re-hospitalizations. Patients may enter in the Visiting Nurse continuum of care at the point determined by the physician to most appropriately match their needs.
Visiting Nurse is the largest safety-net provider of post-acute care in the metro and greater Atlanta areas.
About Visiting Nurse Health System
Founded in 1948, Visiting Nurse Health System is Georgia's largest nonprofit provider of home healthcare and hospice services, and operates the Hospice Atlanta Center in Buckhead. The mission of its 750 employees is to improve the lives of the more than 6,000 patients and their families served each day. Thanks to the support of generous individuals, foundations and corporations, Visiting Nurse is able to provide compassionate, quality care to all of its patients regardless of their ability to pay. For more information, please visit www.vnhs.org.
About Resurgia Health Solutions
Medical Care at Home is an innovative medical practice focused on providing medical care in the comfort of patient’s homes with a full suite of mobile medical services. Resurgia’s comprehensive approach to treating patients is very differentiated from the typical doctor’s office visit. Its carefully selected providers spend quality time with patients (usually an hour for each visit) to understand and treat them as a whole. Resurgia curates an ecosystem of high-performing home care agencies, senior care facilities, medical equipment providers, transitional care and rehab providers, community resources and hospitals that support its goals and partner with Resurgia in providing its patients with more complete care. For more information visit resurgia.com.