COMS Means Better Outcomes:
Improved Resident Health and Increased Revenues

The Solution is COMS

COMS Interactive, LLC is focusing on processes and systems that stabilize and improve resident health while increasing revenues for Post Acute Care facilities and simultaneously cutting overall costs for the payor. This win-win scenario creates improvements that pay for themselves, while improving a facility’s brand, winning resident referrals and developing family loyalty.

COMS Interactive is combining business administration, disease management and long term healthcare knowledge to increase facility profits, reduce medical errors and address resident healthcare needs. These processes can save billions of dollars a year in preventable hospital readmissions and can make every COMS facility a healthy, thriving profit center.

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Article of the Week

Who is in Charge of Discharging Residents?

From www.nursingcenter.com

When an older adult is discharged from the hospital, she or he should have an individualized, comprehensive discharge plan to help prevent unnecessary complications and re-hospitalization...

In examining effective discharge planning for this population, this article examines five discharge models...

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Managing Recently Discharged, Medically Unstable Residents

From the Desk of Dr. Thomas A. Riemenschneider

A major challenge for the United States is the growth of our aging population; in particular, how we achieve the best outcomes for the resources that we as a nation commit to healthcare for the elderly.

This month, we will explore several outstanding issues and challenges revolving around resident hospital re-admission.

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Addressing Hospital Readmissions
  • On April 13, 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a Press Release that 14 communities will participate in a Care Transitions Project (Project) to eliminate unnecessary hospital readmissions...Read More
Discharge Management for the Elderly
Costs Going Up?
  • Are re-hospitalization rates increasing for Medicare beneficiaries who were discharged from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility? Hospital readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries receiving short-term care in skilled nursing facilities increased from 1999 to 2002 across five potentially preventable conditions...Read More
Planning Guide
  • The Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Homecare Association (PHA) said a claim by nursing home interests that home health care is draining resources from nursing homes is, "...false and destructive to broad-based efforts to make limited public dollars go further in providing medical and health services for all Pennsylvanians"… Read More

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What Facilities Say About the COMS System

  • "COMS has implemented an innovative healthcare program which has improved our clinical outcomes, enhanced our quality of care, and increased our census and payor mix."
    - Prentice Thompson, Owner/Operator, Ridgecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
  • "COMS will be a valuable and successful organization in the future as the healthcare environment continues to evolve and continues to value a goal oriented and cost effective approach for solutions for all players, providers and consumers. Without reservation I strongly endorse this company as a successful long-term player in this healthcare consulting field."
    - Kyle R. Allen, D.O., Geriatrician, Chief of Geriatrics, Akron City Health Systems