SEATTLE - (Business Wire) Carena:
| What: | | The Centers for Disease Control and Annals of Emergency |
| | Medicine recently published studies that show two key |
| | trends. First, overall use of the ER rose 36 percent |
| | in the past decade, with about 20 percent of all |
| | visits for preventive care. Second, the number of ER |
| | visits by patients who came to the ER because they |
| | couldn't get an appointment with their primary care |
| | provider is on the rise. |
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| | Seattle-based Carena offers a service that is helping |
| | reduce the strain on ERs - by reinventing the |
| | traditional medical house call. Working in partnership |
| | with employers like Microsoft, Carena primary care |
| | physicians provide urgent care to employees/family |
| | members in the home, any time of night or day, giving |
| | them access to care without the need for the ER. Since |
| | inception in 2000, Carena has delivered more than |
| | 20,000 house calls. |
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| Who: | | Ralph Derrickson, CEO of Carena, is available to |
| | discuss the business model for Carena and how it lowers |
| | costs for employers, improves care and outcomes for |
| | patients and reduces stress on the ER system. |
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| When: | | Ralph is available to speak via phone, by appointment |
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| Where: | | Carena is based in Seattle and currently offers its |
| | house calls in the Seattle and Louisville/Frankfort, |
| | Kentucky areas. |
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| Opportunities: | | Carena can provide access to corporate customers, house |
| | call patients, industry analysts, b-roll of house |
| | call, b-roll of executives & doctors |
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| Contacts: | | John Williams, Scoville PR for Carena, 206.625.0075 |
| | ext. 1 or 206.660.5503 (cell) |
