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Valley Hospital is Bringing Back the House Call!

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Ridgewood NJ, Valley Hospital has just announced that Valley Health System and Dispatch Health have partnered to bring high-quality urgent care to you, in the comfort of your home.

Requesting care is easy — simply visit DispatchHealth.com, use Dispatch Health’s free mobile app, or call us directly at 201-882-7527. Dispatch Health is available in the northern New Jersey area from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week, 365 days a year, including holidays.

On average, our medical teams will arrive at your home within a few hours and are able to treat anything an urgent care center can. We accept most insurance, including Medicare.

Want to learn more? Click here for more details.

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Valley Hospital using EMT house calls to cut down on readmissions

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AUGUST 27, 2015, 9:39 PM    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015, 11:07 PM
BY MARY JO LAYTON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

An ambulance crew dispatched from The Valley Hospital headed out to a Ridgewood home, sirens silenced and the rig moving at normal speed. They were making a house call.

The patient was a 79-year-old man recovering from heart surgery, one of a select group the hospital has targeted in the last year to prevent costly readmissions and provide better care by delivering treatment to the front door.

The Valley team has made 34 such visits, arriving quietly and parking a discreet distance from a patient’s house to prevent panic at home or on the block. Only one patient had to be readmitted, a success rate that has encouraged officials to expand the service, said Lafe Bush, a paramedic and director of emergency services at Valley.

Dispatching the emergency crews is one of the more innovative and cost-effective strategies developed by hospitals across the state to cover critical gaps in treatment that result in readmissions and costly fines, experts said.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/valley-hospital-using-emt-house-calls-to-cut-down-on-readmissions-1.1399739