2. TIPs Overview 2.1 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
TIPs is a multi-award-winning, affinity and congregate setting, multi-disciplinary, intergenerational, high-tech/high-touch, remote patient monitoring program enhanced with wraparound social services programs targeting low-income, high health risk, underserved communities. Using on-site telehealth equipment, Telehealth Technician Assistants (TTA’s) check vital signs, ask behavioral health status questions that are predictive of hospitalization and/or counsel participants and caregivers on available assistance. Telehealth equipment includes HIPAA-compliant Bluetooth blood pressure, blood oxygen, and weight scale connected to Wi-Fi. Information transmits to an electronic database dashboard, which a Registered Nurse reviews and uses to provide follow-up to the participant, primary care physician, and/or caregiver. Social programming, co-produced with residents, is delivered on-site to support and enhance the telehealth services. The TIPs model has proven that cost-efficient, long-term weekly remote patient monitoring (RPM) of basic vital signs and behavioral health status, along with “wraparound” social services is an early warning preventive strategy enabling participants to remain in community, significantly improve individual and community health, prevent hospitalization/ER incidents, and reduce individual and health system costs. 2.2 PARTNERSHIP
Community Opportunity Fund partnered with The Westchester Public/Private Membership Fund for Aging Services (WPPP) and Jonathan Rose Companies to launch Telehealth Intervention Programs (TIPs) at Grace West. Our project team also includes Professor Matthew Neidell from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, whose role is to analyze the data and draw conclusions on cost savings in the health care system as a result of the preventative care being delivered through TIPs.
2. TIPs Overview
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