A Game Plan…
A Game Plan for High-Acuity Home Care One of the clearest conclusions I have come to through years of navigating high-acuity home care is this: The answer cannot simply be throwing more money at the same structure and hoping it works. If the framework itself is wrong, increased funding alone will not solve the problem. Ohio is facing a rapidly growing population of medically complex individuals who are surviving injuries and diagnoses that previously would not have survived due to limitations in medical knowledge, technology, or long-term care understanding. Today, many of these individuals are living at home for years and even decades. My son Alex is one of them. Alex has survived and thrived for more than twenty years following a catastrophic high cervical neurologic injury involving autonomic instability and diaphragm pacing. What has allowed him not only to survive, but continue progressing, has not been standardized task-based care. It has been highly individualized, experie...
