As one of 12 innovative healthcare companies selected as finalists for the 2011 ABBY Awards, CareMeridian recently attended the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization’s 13th Annual Innovations in Healthcare (SM) Awards Event. The Event drew top executives from healthcare providers, information, medical and bio-technology, wellness, and professional services companies from across the nation.

All finalists were asked to produce a video illustrating the company’s innovation, the problem it addresses and the solution presented. CareMeridian’s video addresses the following problem:

Patients suffering from traumatic injury or medically complex illness typically are too medically complex to be discharged to traditional post acute providers and still require significant rehabilitation and nursing to decomplicate and build up the endurance to tolerate more rigorous rehabilitation programs to prepare them to live independently. CareMeridian provides unmatched staff-to-patient ratio in an intimate, home-like environment more conducive to recovery.  CareMeridian’s highly trained rehabilitation teams are comprised of physical, occupational, respiratory and speech therapists, as well as neuropsychological specialists. This interdisciplinary team approach to post acute care leads to significantly reduced cost savings (less than half) and more positive outcomes with the highest possible opportunity for recovery in non-institutional community-based settings.

CareMeridian, a partner of The MENTOR Network, provides a continuum of high quality, cost-effective post-acute care and rehabilitation options to people of all ages with brain, spinal cord and other life-altering injuries and medically-complex illnesses. With program locations throughout the Western United States, CareMeridian offers a distinctive service delivery model, merging an experienced and skilled health care and rehabilitation team with state-of-the-art technology in community-based program settings designed to meet the unique needs of those we serve at every stage of their recovery.

The MENTOR Network is a national network of local providers serving at-risk youth, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and people with brain, spinal cord and other catastrophic illnesses and injuries in nearly 40 states. To learn more, please visit www.thementornetwork.com.

Contact:
Dan Larson
Chief Development Officer
314.440.4257
dlarson@caremeridian.com