Jill’s List Helps Patients Prepare for Surgery Resulting in Significant Healthcare Savings
Jill’s List introduces exclusive directory to Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM instructors who use a mind-body technique to help patients heal faster and hospitals and self-insured companies reduce healthcare costs.
Boston, MA, October 30, 2012 --(PR.com)-- In the midst of growing concern over the national healthcare budget ballooning out of control, Jill’s List announces a way for patients who are preparing for surgery to find resources which can help them reduce anxiety before surgery, heal faster and reduce their cost of healthcare.
Jill’s List and its premium product for companies, JL Corporate Wellness, connects patients, employees and doctors across the country with practitioners like those trained in Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM program. Huddleston developed five steps to prepare for surgery using mind-body techniques. Using her book and relaxation CD a week before their operation, patients use relaxation and visualization to calm preoperative jitters and strengthen their immune system. This speeds their healing resulting in being discharged from the hospital sooner and a significant cost-savings.
A controlled study at The Lahey Clinic, a Tufts University Medical School, showed patients having colorectal surgery who used Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM reduced anxiety and healed faster, leaving the hospital 1.6 days sooner than the control group. When a patient’s hospital stay is reduced by 1.6 days, the cost-savings is $3,200 for the hospital or the corporation that self-insures the patient.
With 48 million inpatient surgeries performed in the US every year, there would be a cost-savings of $38 billion if 25% of these patients used this program before their surgery. “Patients who use Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM are less anxious and often recover more quickly than those who do not,” says Dr. R. Morton Bolman III, Director of Cardiac Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, offers every patient a free 1-hour Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM workshop by phone with a nurse trained by Peggy Huddleston.
“In addition to significant cost savings, research shows Peggy Huddleston’s program results in the use of less pain medication, less irritability and insomnia and a significant increase in patient satisfaction,” comments Jill Shah, founder of Jill’s List. “We make it easy for patients, doctors, nurses, employees and employers to find great, credentialed practitioners and use this program in preparation for surgery.”
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare practitioners who are trained and certified in Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM are listed on Jill’s List for free, making it easy for consumers, employees and referring practitioners to find a trained professional. Jill’s List is the only centralized directory that patients, employees and practitioners can use to find Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM instructors.
“Jill’s List is a visionary partner who will help make many more patients aware of Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM and connect them with a certified instructor,” says Peggy Huddleston.
Jill’s List is focused on making evidence-based, low cost health solutions more accessible. Building off of the research conducted at teaching hospitals and top academic medical centers around the United States, Jill’s List is helping put into use the cost-saving health solutions that have been found to improve health outcomes. Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM is just 1 of over 50 integrative healthcare services listed and reviewed. Jill’s List showcases those programs, services and practitioners and makes it easier to connect patients with the right, personalized program or health solution, while using tax efficient cost savings solutions like flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) plans.
About Jill's List
Jill's List (www.jillslist.com) manages a network of patients, practitioners and corporate clients focused on health and wellness. Its directory enables patients to find, contact and review credentialed complementary, alternative and integrative healthcare practitioners. Jill’s List also offers two premium products – a Referral Tool for health professionals and premium membership for companies. Health professionals market their practices with free profiles and use the Jill’s List Referral Tool to send and receive referrals from other practitioners, doctors and patients. Employees with access to a premium membership on Jill’s List use the resource to learn about eligible Flex-spending expenses, facilitate retrieval for Letters of Medical Necessity, and streamline FSA reimbursement which all help to drive employee utilization of Flex-spending Accounts.
About Peggy Huddleston
Peggy Huddleston is the author of Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques. She developed five steps to prepare for surgery. Research has shown patients using her book and relaxation CD had less anxiety before surgery, reduced use of pain medication by 50% and speeded healing. Her book and relaxation CD are recommended at leading hospitals including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School hospital, and NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. To learn more, visit www.HealFaster.com.
If you'd like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview with Jill Shah or Peggy Huddleston, please contact Lisa Chin at (857) 233-5423.
Jill’s List and its premium product for companies, JL Corporate Wellness, connects patients, employees and doctors across the country with practitioners like those trained in Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM program. Huddleston developed five steps to prepare for surgery using mind-body techniques. Using her book and relaxation CD a week before their operation, patients use relaxation and visualization to calm preoperative jitters and strengthen their immune system. This speeds their healing resulting in being discharged from the hospital sooner and a significant cost-savings.
A controlled study at The Lahey Clinic, a Tufts University Medical School, showed patients having colorectal surgery who used Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM reduced anxiety and healed faster, leaving the hospital 1.6 days sooner than the control group. When a patient’s hospital stay is reduced by 1.6 days, the cost-savings is $3,200 for the hospital or the corporation that self-insures the patient.
With 48 million inpatient surgeries performed in the US every year, there would be a cost-savings of $38 billion if 25% of these patients used this program before their surgery. “Patients who use Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM are less anxious and often recover more quickly than those who do not,” says Dr. R. Morton Bolman III, Director of Cardiac Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, offers every patient a free 1-hour Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM workshop by phone with a nurse trained by Peggy Huddleston.
“In addition to significant cost savings, research shows Peggy Huddleston’s program results in the use of less pain medication, less irritability and insomnia and a significant increase in patient satisfaction,” comments Jill Shah, founder of Jill’s List. “We make it easy for patients, doctors, nurses, employees and employers to find great, credentialed practitioners and use this program in preparation for surgery.”
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare practitioners who are trained and certified in Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM are listed on Jill’s List for free, making it easy for consumers, employees and referring practitioners to find a trained professional. Jill’s List is the only centralized directory that patients, employees and practitioners can use to find Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM instructors.
“Jill’s List is a visionary partner who will help make many more patients aware of Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM and connect them with a certified instructor,” says Peggy Huddleston.
Jill’s List is focused on making evidence-based, low cost health solutions more accessible. Building off of the research conducted at teaching hospitals and top academic medical centers around the United States, Jill’s List is helping put into use the cost-saving health solutions that have been found to improve health outcomes. Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM is just 1 of over 50 integrative healthcare services listed and reviewed. Jill’s List showcases those programs, services and practitioners and makes it easier to connect patients with the right, personalized program or health solution, while using tax efficient cost savings solutions like flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) plans.
About Jill's List
Jill's List (www.jillslist.com) manages a network of patients, practitioners and corporate clients focused on health and wellness. Its directory enables patients to find, contact and review credentialed complementary, alternative and integrative healthcare practitioners. Jill’s List also offers two premium products – a Referral Tool for health professionals and premium membership for companies. Health professionals market their practices with free profiles and use the Jill’s List Referral Tool to send and receive referrals from other practitioners, doctors and patients. Employees with access to a premium membership on Jill’s List use the resource to learn about eligible Flex-spending expenses, facilitate retrieval for Letters of Medical Necessity, and streamline FSA reimbursement which all help to drive employee utilization of Flex-spending Accounts.
About Peggy Huddleston
Peggy Huddleston is the author of Prepare for Surgery, Heal FasterTM: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques. She developed five steps to prepare for surgery. Research has shown patients using her book and relaxation CD had less anxiety before surgery, reduced use of pain medication by 50% and speeded healing. Her book and relaxation CD are recommended at leading hospitals including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School hospital, and NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. To learn more, visit www.HealFaster.com.
If you'd like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview with Jill Shah or Peggy Huddleston, please contact Lisa Chin at (857) 233-5423.
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If you'd like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview with Jill Shah or Peggy Huddleston, please contact Lisa Chin at (857) 233-5423.
Lisa Chin
888-960-8033
www.jillslist.com
If you'd like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview with Jill Shah or Peggy Huddleston, please contact Lisa Chin at (857) 233-5423.
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