Acute &
Post-Acute Care
Choose a healthcare team that partners with you to practice excellent hospitalist medicine.
IPC is the nation’s leading physician group practice focused on the delivery of hospital medicine and related facility-based services. Our team of well trained and highly skilled physicians provide care to more than 1 million patients across the nation, while upholding the same standards of quality care evident in the facilities we serve.
IPC manages the care of patients in coordination with primary care physicians and specialists at hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and long-term acute care hospitals across the region.
IPC NEWS AND UPDATES:
- WELCOME TEAM HEALTH to IPC's Michigan Regional Office!
- IPC Healthcare teams up with Premier Health Plan in the Dayton/Cinci area to provide care for Premier Health Plan participants in Skilled Nursing Facilities.
- IPC Healthcare in the Cinci area now has privileges in The Christ Hospital, Fort Hamilton Hospital and HealthSouth.
Thank you for your interest in IPC Michigan Region. If you would like to be contacted to learn more about us, please complete this form. Stevan Popovic, Regional Manager of Marketing, will contact you. If you experience any difficulty please call our marketing department direct at 248-952-1601 ext. 2125
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WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE IPC?
We are a network of over 2,200 providers that are dedicated to
providing quality care to patients in the entire spectrum of care,
the acute and post-acute settings.
IN ADDITION, YOU WILL ENJOY:
- A continuum of care: IPC offers the entire spectrum of care in the acute and post-acute settings whether the patient stays in the hospital, skilled nursing facility, or long term acute care IPC is there to care for you.
- Care coordination: IPC will arrange for the admission, manage the progress of patient care, and coordinate the discharge.
- A focus on hospital and post-acute care medicine: IPC physicians are focused on both hospital and acute-care medicine.
- Communication between doctors: IPC’s Virtual Office offers your physician access to a second opinion from over 2,200 other IPC physicians. Providers are able to communicate easily and efficiently with each other in order to provide the best quality care.
- Quality outcomes: IPC’s top priority is excellent patient care. All of our providers are dedicated during the entire continuum of care to ensure the best outcome for that patient.
- Accessibility: IPC believes that having a provider available up to 7 days a week directly decreases unplanned discharges.
IPC REGIONAL LOCATIONS
Our team of dedicated physicians works together to create an inspiring and satisfying work environment focused on providing the best possible hospital care. Each of our physicians has made a deliberate decision to practice hospital medicine and to do it with passion and focus.
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ACUTE CARE
Who is IPC, Healthcare Inc.?
IPC, inpatient Consultants, is a private medical practice of acute care providers dedicated to the care of your hospitalized patients allowing you to care for and build your office practice. IPC hospitalists refer your patient back to your practice for their follow-up visits.
IPC Hospitalists are:
Well versed in hospital medicine, available 24 hours 7 days a week to cover your hospital calls and are able to admit your patients at facilities where you do not have privileges.
How do our Hospitalists Communicate with you?
Within 24 hours of a patient being admitted to IPC’s service you will receive an Admit Notification that will include the patient’s diagnoses, studies and any consults. Upon a patient being discharged a Discharge Notification will be sent to you including diagnoses, studies, consults, medications, home health and follow-up instructions. Throughout your patients stay, Important patient status and clinical information will automatically be faxed to your office. In addition, upon discharge, IPC’s Nursing Call Center attempts to contact patients discharged to home within 48 hours to ensure proper follow-up with discharge orders and the appropriate return to your office.
How do you refer your patients to IPC?
If you are contacted by a hospital emergency department, you can ask them to admit to IPC. We also can provide you with an “Authorization to Admit to IPC” form for you to sign and fax to the hospital that states you would like patients of yours to be admitted to IPC.
WOUND CARE
IPC’s wound care team is comprised of highly skilled and trained providers that provide comprehensive wound care treatment and management in the post-acute setting along with training and education to staff, patients and families.
Offering weekly scheduled visits, your staff will feel more comfortable caring for residents with wounds and your admissions department will be able to admit more patients knowing that there is a wound care provider to care for your residents with wounds.
Types of wounds cared for (but not limited to):
• Surgical
• Pressure
• Cellulitis
• Lymphedema
IPC’s wound care providers work independently from our acute and post-acute providers.
*not currently available in all areas of the region
RESPIRATORY THERAPY
IPC offers Licensed Respiratory Therapists to assist with respiratory care in the post-acute care setting. Our respiratory therapists will ensure proper care for your patients with respiratory needs including but not limited to: CPAP, bipap and Tracheostomies.
IPC Respiratory Therapists offer:
• In-Services for your staff
• Education for your residents
• Tracheostomy decannulation
• Capping
• Tube changing
• Equipment and medication cost reduction
• Recommendations in Plan of Correction
* not currently available in all areas of the region
LONG TERM ACUTE CARE
The long term acute care facilities associated with IPC resource intensive care through our staff of providers. Each patient receives individualized care according to their needs.
LTAC patients need a special kind of facility to receive the resources and time necessary for improvement. Our IPC long term acute care facilities are designed to treat seriously ill patients who require an extended, more attentive hospital stay. To care for this special type of patient, we have teams of doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants dedicated to improving the health of your loved one.
SKILLED NURSING AND LONG TERM CARE
Three main areas of focus:
• Provider Availability for Medically Necessary Visits
• Medication Management
• Care Coordination
IPC providers give our post-acute care patients high-level quality care while reducing unplanned discharges, which yields a low rate of unnecessary and disruptive hospital readmissions. IPC offers a continuum of care between our providers in the acute setting and those in the post-acute setting. The IPC model provides top quality care for patients which results in a high referral rate coupled with a low unplanned discharge rate.
Provider Availability for Medically Necessary Visits
IPC believes that having a provider available in a facility up to seven days a week directly affects unplanned discharges. Provider presence equals less unplanned discharges.
Medication Management
IPC providers carefully audit their patient’s medications, lowering the amount of medications when applicable. IPC believes patients should receive only amount of medications hey need avoiding dangerous drug interactions.
Care Coordination
IPC care coordinators work directly with facility discharge planners, ensuring a continuum of care for the patient. The overriding goal is to improve the quality of patient care and patient satisfaction.
ASSISTED AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
IPC Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants (known as Providers) bring medical care to you in your home in assisted and independent living facilities.
IPC Providers are available on call 24-hours 7-days a week for all urgent medical needs. If you or a family member has a question or are in need of a provider visit, IPC offers a 24 hour voicemail line.
IPC works with diagnostic companies that will provide diagnostic services including x-rays, ultrasounds and labs in your home for convenience and comfort.
IPC’s Assisted & Independent Bullet Points
No need to travel to doctors appointments
IPC comes on the same day and time every week
24/7 Voicemail line for residents and families
Diagnostics come to you
Providers with extensive knowledge in caring for residents in their home
IPC’s Appointment & Inquiry Phone Number
855-503-0880.
ACUTE CARE (Hospitalist)
WOUND CARE
RESPIRATORY THERAPY
LONG TERM ACUTE CARE (LTAC)
SKILLED NURSING AND LONG TERM CARE
ASSISTED AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
ABOUT IPC MICHIGAN REGION
IPC serving you in Michigan, Ohio, West-Central New York, Kentucky. IPC Michigan Region is part of a large network of physician services under the umbrella of IPC Corporate. This allows IPC Michigan Region to receive national support and operating guidance, while still managing daily operations and decisions at a local level.
HISTORY
Founded by physicians in 1995, IPC is the nation’s leading private practice hospitalist group. IPC’s providers, support staff, operations, and technology are all focused on driving the health care delivery system towards better, more efficient, and high quality inpatient care. Today the company manages over 200 practice groups, providing care in over 1,100 medical facilities in 28 states.
IPC has taken a leadership role in the emergence of this new medical specialty and today has over 2,200 full time providers in the U.S. IPC works closely with approximately 40,000 referring primary care physicians in 30 states.
On January 24, 2008, IPC became the first practice group, exclusively focused on hospital medicine, to become a publicly traded company.
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IPC REGIONAL OFFICE
ADDRESS
IPC Michigan Region
4967 Crooks Road Suite 130
Troy, MI 48098
PHONE
(248) 952-1601
spopovic@ipcm.com
IPC CORPORATE
ADDRESS
IPC Healthcare, Inc.
4605 Lankershim Blvd., Suite 617
North Hollywood CA 91602
PHONE
(888) 447-2362
information@hospitalist.com
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