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Encore Health in Livingston partnering with Jamestown’s Buckeye Home Medical to manage and navigate care for respiratory patients.
Encore Health CEO Zach Gantt said the partnership allows Encore to provide telehealth services to patients who use Buckeye as their equipment provider.
“Traditionally in a model where it’s really centered around the equipment provided by the company, we’re focused on how we bring care to the home by using technology so we can do it at a much lower cost,” Gantt said. “And we can also identify problems that patients may have.”
Gantt said the program will provide patients the in-home care they might not get from primary clinicians. He said patients will have the ability to call someone 24/7 when they need help or have questions.
Gantt said that Encore provides telehealth services all over the country, but wanted to turn its focus locally to patients in the Upper Cumberland. He said Tennessee ranks as one of the highest in the country when it comes to respiratory illnesses like COPD.
“There are a lot of other ones, lung cancer, COVID, there are a lot of people that have had problems after COVID that has extended past the two or three week recovery time that most of us experience,” Gantt said. “There are a lot of patients there who are struggling with respiratory problems and in this area, we have some of the highest rates per capita.”
Gantt said to become a client and participate the program, patients need to use Buckeye Home Medical as their equipment provider and they will be automatically enrolled.
