Transitional Care Management

So, we're changing things up a bit here at the Reliance HHC blog. We'll now begin telling you about the vast array of services we provide. Let's start with our transitional care management program.

Transitional care management (or TCM, for short) refers to the care given during the time between health care practitioners and settings change, depending on their chronic or acute illness. This time is important for the patient undergoing the transition. For example, if a person is discharged from the hospital, but suffers an accident at their home within the next 30 days, they are re-admitted. This increases the risk to that person's health, costs money and manpower, and takes up a much needed hospital bed for something that very well could have been prevented. And that's exactly what we do; we prevent accidents and injuries that shouldn't happen in the first place, but invariably do to many thousands of people every year.

For the original care transitions program set in place by Dr. Eric Coleman, visit his website.