Friday Refresh

May 30, 2025

Week 2 with us is in the books! Mom will be home post-most-recent hospitalization for 2 weeks on Monday!

Here’s a refresh on this week’s topics and some relevant questions: I ran through some lessons learned and tips related to Medical and Surgical teams and consulting specialties and shared potential issues related to getting a clear diagnosis while seeking effective treatment. I also shared some info regarding different types/levels of aftercare and spoke at length about our experiences with ways patient treatment compliance impacts admissions to aftercare. For discussion I am wondering what can be done to improve individual patient care from diagnoses, to treatment planning, to discharge with aftercare. I would also ask what can be done to assure that all aftercare facilities reach higher standards? Additionally I am very interested in knowing more about what happens to each medical facility, team, and provider when a patient is repeatedly readmitted, when errors are made, or when there is an infection post-procedure? Can managed care also offer some kind of incentives for hospitals, care teams, and providers who end up helping those who are medically complex to truly make progress? Can providers and their team members tell the patients and their families more about what managed care is doing that limits them? Might knowing more about the penalties the hospital and providers are facing bring a better understanding of the conditions they are operating under? Ultimately, how can providers and their teams better work as a team with the patient and patient’s loved ones to improve ultimate outcomes?

Fun Facts about the Founder and Family: We celebrated our family Christmas with blogger’s parents in March this year during a brief period of Mom being home from the hospital. The decorations stayed up from November to March and were both a bright spot while celebrating and a conversation starter when people stopped by. Mom’s favorite holiday is Christmas and her decorations, most of which were purchased in her 50’s and 60’s while she was an avid yard saler and thrift store treasure hunter. Her holiday colors are gold and forest green and her stately tree stands tall in the formal living room. Blogger decks the halls in blue and silver (much of which Mom found for her on her quests for steals and deals). When our large household comes together we are often

Key Takeaway: As always please use this week’s posts to start helpful conversations with your loved ones on these topics. You are also encouraged to begin thinking through who you will likely be advocating for and how it will look as you support them. Who can advise and support you through it? When it comes to aspects that you have some or total control over, how do you prefer to handle it? What does your loved one think?

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