Peg Sherer is a fiercely independent 95-year-old, grateful that home health care allows her to stay in the La Crosse house where she has lived for almost 65 years. <\/p>\n
Id have to be in a nursing home if I didnt have this, Sherer said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
She relaxed on her living room couch as nurse Kathie Hanna applied fresh bandages to ulcers on Sherers right leg resulting from a vascular condition. <\/p>\n
Im happy here in my home, Sherer said. Im so much happier than Id be in a nursing home. <\/p>\n
Thats the point of home health care, a notion aimed at getting patients out of the hospital faster and keeping them in their homes longer before in-patient treatment is required. <\/p>\n
Patients are happier at home, and hospitals save money. <\/p>\n
Its a growing trend in medicine. According to the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, about 12 million Americans require some form of home health care. Two-thirds are women. <\/p>\n
There are about 33,000 home health care providers today, and about $72.2 billion was spent on home health care in 2009. <\/p>\n
Thats a lot of money, but likely less than what would have been spent if those patients were hospitalized. <\/p>\n
The medical system is trying to keep people out of the hospital, said Jennifer Meyers, home care-hospice supervisor at Mayo, whose program recently earned a HomeCare Elite title for the third consecutive year in a national ranking of home health care agencies. This gets them out sooner and prevents rehospitalization. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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