Mobile Prevention: Community Health on Wheels

BryanLGH Health System

• Not-for-Profit Health System based in Lincoln, NE
• 2 acute care facilities; Multiple outpatient clinics
• ByranLGH Heart Institute was started in 2001 and offers diagnostic, interventional, preventative and surgical treatment programs.

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BryanLGH’s Mobile Screening Unit

• Mobile trailer with three screening bays
• Same diagnostic equipment as Heart Institute
• Staffed with one dedicated Registered Nurse and rotating technologists
• Unit marketed through employers, hospitals and health fairs
• HealthAware provides marketing, call-to-action, scheduling, & tracking of services and referrals
• HealthAware Screening packages for Heart, Vascular and Stroke
• 500 average annual screenings
• 10% of those screened are referred for follow-up
• Over $1M in charges generated in first 18 months

Employer Outreach: State Farm Insurance

• Over 1,600 employees in Lincoln
• Completed nearly 700 risk assessments & over 100 clinical consultations 
  • Many referred back to PCP to monitor Blood Pressure and Cholesterol
  • All encouraged to utilize State Farm’s Occ. Health Nurse
• The HeartAware Employer Report identifies various vulnerabilities

Results:

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• More than 7,500 completed risk assessments, nearly 1,000 verified clinical consultations, and more than 2,400 resulting patient encounters
• Over 400 physician referrals tracked through the HealthAware program
• HealthAware Heart, Vascular and Sleep modules currently active
• Significant positive shift in Payer Mix from HealthAware participants (see above)
• Over $8 Million in charges generated to date

Success Stories: Leah McClement, BSN, RN, HealthAware Screener

• “HealthAware provides an easy entry point into the often-intimidating world of healthcare.”
• “HealthAware facilitates partnerships with local industry which foster healthy work forces & strengthen our community presence.”
• “One seemingly-healthy gentleman in his late 60’s came to a HeartAware screening with his wife and discovered previously unknown risk factors.  This resulted in a cardiology consultation, heart catheterization and subsequent bypass surgery within 2 weeks.  He is extremely grateful to the program and believes to this day that HeartAware saved his life.”