Provider Partners Health Plan Signs New Partnership with Lorien Health Services
October 16, 2018
LINTHICUM, MD–Provider Partners Health Plan (PPHP) this month announced a new affiliation with Lorien Health Services, a family-owned organization that operates nine skilled nursing facilities in four counties in Maryland, including Baltimore, Carroll, Harford & Howard counties. PPHP will provide its Institutional Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan (I-SNP) to Lorien’s long-term care residents.
PPHP offers long-term care residents an integrated and personalized approach to care that is managed and coordinated by a local provider clinical team—including nurse practitioners and nurse care coordinators who check in daily with members—thereby providing better care management enabling the team to address burgeoning health issues which ultimately reduces hospitalization rates for the member —and the facility.
To date, PPHP has enrolled more than 1,000 members in 22 long-term care facilities in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Lorien Health, founded in 1977 by Mary and Nicholas Mangione Sr., provides a variety of services and therapies to seniors in long-term care facilities in Maryland. The company combines patient-centered care with the latest in healthcare technology.
PPHP began enrolling members in July at Lorien Columbia in Howard County and will expand to other Maryland facilities throughout the remainder of the year.
“Our partnership with PPHP provides new resources to further improve our already market-leading quality of care. We are very careful with whom we choose to partner and PPHP has demonstrated its ability to run a high-quality organization that truly cares about patients,” said Lou Grimmel, CEO of Lorien Health Systems.
“We are thrilled to have Lorien join with PPHP to invest in higher quality care and better patient outcomes. By decreasing the need for repeat hospitalizations, the patients benefit and we reduce the total cost of care for the long-term care population,” said Dr. Scott Rifkin, Executive Chairman of PPHP.
Provider Partners Health Plan (PPHP) partners with providers to deliver excellent, compassionate, and personalized health care for seniors.