Why Choose Somnium for your
Respiratory Therapy Services
Somnium Health Solutions is helping healthcare facilities across the country stay relevant and sustainable. Somnium can help your facility generate important new revenue by billing ancillary services, maximizing billing codes, using effective marketing, keeping cardiopulmonary services in-house, providing highly competent staff and adding new services to your current ones. These things allow easy access to premier healthcare in your community. Somnium has over 100 years of combined experience in cardiopulmonary fields which makes us experts at making your facility shine. Our mission is to help you in optimizing both the patient and clinical experience while generating additional revenue allowing you to continue to serve your community.
Somnium Health Solutions/Testimonial for RT
Somnium Health Solutions acknowledges Dave Wheatcraft for this outstanding review from Hancock County Health Systems
“…Dave and his colleagues have definitely improved the health of the population of patients targeted for cardiopulmonary services in our service area. In doing so, we have realized a decrease in hospitalizations and readmissions; improved mortality and morbidity; and improved the quality of life in measurable outcomes. Also, we have increased HCHS’s overall vitality as a health care organization and have enhanced its revenue stream.”
Ms. Laura Zwiefel
CEO/CNO
Hancock County Health Systems
Adding Respiratory Therapy in-Facility Increases Positive COPD Patient Outcomes
Excerpt from Editorial Respiratory Care September 2016 Vol 61 No 9
Given that patients with COPD have some of the highest comorbidities (e.g., congestive heart failure, acute renal disease, pneumonia), identification of patients with COPD is most challenging.
With the addition of COPD to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also changed the formula for readmission to include all causes and all conditions. *Several previous investigations have evaluated the cost-effectiveness of respiratory care protocols and devices. Each of these, involving both COPD patients and other diagnoses, revealed opportunities for reducing operational costs and demonstrating the value of RTs. They created a clinical scoring tool that was incorporated within a patient assessment and protocol program, with the goal of improving the quality of care for COPD patients and assessing the ability to decrease operational costs.
Excerpt from Editorial Respiratory Care, January 2017 Vol 62 No 1
Twenty percent of Medicare-eligible patients (over 65 y old) admitted for COPD exacerbations were reported to require readmission within 30 d.1 Half of these readmissions were for respiratory-related disease.
The study by Silver et al. 5 is especially relevant to the essential role of respiratory therapists in preventing readmissions following COPD exacerbation. These investigators randomized 428 subjects at high risk for readmission to usual pre-discharge care versus a comprehensive respiratory therapy disease management program conducted by specially trained respiratory therapist case managers.
The respiratory therapy disease management protocol incorporated pre-discharge subject education.
Key findings of the study were that subjects receiving respiratory therapy disease management experienced significantly fewer readmissions for COPD exacerbations (20% vs 28%), shorter duration of hospitalization if readmission was required (5 d vs 8 d), and fewer total inpatient and ICU days over 6 months of follow-up.