{"id":1597,"date":"2017-03-29T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2017-03-29T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:15:30","slug":"immersion-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/2017\/03\/29\/immersion-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersion Summary &#8211; Jonah, Rob, Therese, Mary, and Sophie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 3rd, Optum Team A experienced an incredibly valuable immersion at St. Joseph PACE in Mishawaka, IN. The PACE center is a nonprofit affiliated with Trinity Health whose mission is to keep the elderly &#8220;safe and healthy at home.&#8221; They identify the elderly in need and offer an affordable, accessible, engaging experience for those are determined &#8220;fit&#8221; for PACE. PACE\u00a0offers a holistic and proactive approach, a &#8220;one-stop shop&#8221; if you will, that provides all the necessary factors to aging in place: doctors, physical and mental therapy, dietitians, activities, transportation, and more, all on-site. They tailor the plan to the individual accelerate recovery, prolong life, and enhance their service. The site itself looks a futuristic daycare, with spacious rooms, comfortable chairs, showers, a kitchen, Xbox, workout facility, fully equipped rooms for doctors and nurses, a non-denominational religious room for worship, and more.<\/p>\n<p>While on site, we were lucky to have a guided tour and 90 minute interview with three experts: Bobbi Costigan, head nurse; Kathleen Murphy, CMO; and Ashley Stump, intake coordinator. In addition to key details about their service, they provided insightful information with regard to the user and the future of the business.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 3 key takeaways our team garnered from the visit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PACE-like centers\u00a0reduce the cost of hospitals in their community\n<ul>\n<li>can we replicate this in a product or service?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What key health metrics to look for\n<ul>\n<li>vitals, falls, supplement intake, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The importance of a one-stop shop, easily accessible and customizable health care plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1600\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_3582-768x512-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_3582-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_3582-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 3rd, Optum Team A experienced an incredibly valuable immersion at St. Joseph PACE in Mishawaka, IN. The PACE center is a nonprofit affiliated with Trinity Health whose mission is to keep the elderly &#8220;safe and healthy at home.&#8221; They identify the elderly in need and offer an affordable, accessible, engaging experience for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187905,188601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-optum","category-projects-spring-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}