Total Living Choices Partners with Los Angeles County Healthy Department to
Streamline the Patient Discharge Process
Seattle, Wash. (Sept. 15, 2010) – Los Angeles County Health Department has signed
a partnership agreement with Total Living Choices, a premier health-care technology
company that offers software solutions to help patients, families and health-care
providers coordinate post-acute care.
This partnership follows the recent contract between TLC and Rancho Los Amigos National
Rehabilitation Center. Like Rancho Los Amigos, Los Angeles County Health Department
will now have access to TLC’s Care Finder-Pro® discharge networking software. Care
Finder-Pro, the company’s flagship product, is installed at hospitals throughout
the United States. Hospital personnel use the product to quickly and cost-effectively
research available providers when discharging patients. Care Finder-Pro securely
stores and manages all patient documentation electronically and can be customized
to each hospital's requirements. Physicians are notified of patients' facility choices
and will receive management reports on provider and planner activity.
Director of Los Angeles County Health Department Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding believes
that this partnership will be beneficial to patients, families and staff alike.
“We recognize what a difficult process it can be for patients or their families
to determine the best post-acute care options. Through our partnership with TLC
and the addition of Care Finder-Pro, we hope to ease this burden and help patients
and their families when trying to determine the best transitional care choice based
on their quality of life wants and quality of care needs,” Dr. Fielding said.
Total Living Choices CEO Ted Tanase said that together, TLC and Los Angeles County
Health Department will educate patients on available providers in their time of
need. “With more than 68,000 post-acute providers nationwide, we have the most comprehensive
database on the market,” Tanase said. “We believe patients should have access to
every available resource. Our goal is to help unburden hospitals from tedious paperwork
so they can focus on what really matters – the patients."
About Total Living Choices, TLChoices.com
Total Living Choices unites patients, families and health-care organizations in
finding the best transitional care solutions. Founded in 1999, TLC maintains the
largest known database of post-acute care providers in the U.S. TLC offers information
on more than 68,000 providers, including nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities,
assisted living, home health, home care, hospice, durable medical equipment and
long-term care providers. TLC’s web-based solutions provide financial and satisfaction
benefits for hospitals and providers and increased patient and family education
and satisfaction.
About Los Angeles County Health Department
Los Angeles County Health Department serves nearly 10 million residents. Los Angeles
County Health Department’s objective is to protect health, prevent disease, and
promote health and well being for all persons in Los Angeles County. Their
focus is on the Los Angeles County population as a whole, and they conduct their
activities through a network of public health professionals throughout the community.
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