LinkedIn November 1, 2018
Stanley Ritter is 98 and lives with his wife near Beavertown, a borough of less than 1,000 people in rural central Pennsylvania. Heart failure, along with mitral valve prolapse, aortic valve disease, atrial fibrillation and some respiratory issues, put Stanley in the hospital four times in 2017. Like all of us, rich or poor, young or old, in the city or the countryside, Stanley would much prefer to be home.
As both a Geisinger patient and health plan member, we wanted to see what we could do to take better care of Stanley and other patients in similar situations. He enrolled in Geisinger at Home, an innovative new program that brings a whole care team into the home of patients...
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