Blue Defend of California Introduces at-Residence Care Companies to Accommodate Members’ Busy Lives | Blue Defend of California

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 7, 2022) – Blue Defend of California members residing in Southern California now have entry to further medical care providers for a variety of diseases and accidents within the consolation and comfort of their houses by means of a collaboration with DispatchHealth.

DispatchHealth affords in-home, same-day, high-touch care that’s delivered by a group of educated medical professionals who can deal with greater than 40 well being circumstances, together with circumstances like respiratory infections, pneumonia, and continual obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD). Care is on the market in English and Spanish from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Bridge care—help in transitioning high-risk members from hospital care to house care—can be accessible to assist members with their restoration and forestall hospital readmissions.

In Blue Defend’s current take a look at of DispatchHealth service for the well being plan’s members, greater than half of those that used it did so after 5 p.m., which is when most major care workplaces are closed and sometimes the busiest hours for emergency rooms.

“With our DispatchHealth collaboration, Blue Defend can present a handy manner for members to entry high quality care immediately of their houses,” stated Peter Lengthy, govt vp of Technique and Well being Options at Blue Defend of California. “Assembly members the place they’re and eradicating boundaries to care with high quality at-home medical providers is a part of our mission to supply well being care that’s worthy of our household and pals and sustainably inexpensive.”

Blue Defend of California members residing in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties who’re enrolled in Most well-liked Supplier Group (PPO), or Well being Upkeep Group (HMO) plans can entry DispatchHealth providers. Whereas members with HMO plans should be referred by their major care doctor, these enrolled in PPO plans and Medi-Cal plans (in Los Angeles and San Diego counties) can obtain entry to DispatchHealth providers by:

• Contacting Blue Defend of California Buyer Care, Care Concierge, or Nurse Hotline
• Contacting DispatchHealth immediately through their web site

“DispatchHealth was created to deliver secure, high-acuity care to sufferers with complicated medical wants who typically wrestle with entry to care,” stated Mark Prather, MD, co-founder and CEO of DispatchHealth. “As we’ve expanded our choices and collaborations inside the trade, we proceed to imagine care within the house is extra patient-centered and affords the chance for higher outcomes. We’re grateful to ship on the advantages of home-based care with Blue Defend of California.”

This collaboration is a part of Blue Defend of California’s Health Reimagined technique to remodel well being care by means of improvements that advance customized, holistic, tech-enabled affected person care. The work with DispatchHealth is the most recent instance of Blue Defend’s collaboration with suppliers to extend entry, comfort, and selection whereas bettering high quality of care, outcomes, and affected person expertise.

About Blue Defend of California
Blue Defend of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its household and pals that’s sustainably inexpensive. Blue Defend of California is a tax-paying, nonprofit, impartial member of the Blue Defend Affiliation with 4.7 million members, 7,800 workers, and $22.9 billion in annual income. Based in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Defend of California and its associates present well being, dental, imaginative and prescient, Medicaid, and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The corporate has contributed $120 million to Blue Defend of California Basis within the final three years to have an effect on California communities.

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