Encore Healthcare & MedSouth Inc Announce Milestone Achievements in Home Respiratory Care

WATERLOO, Iowa (April 8, 2021)—VGM & Associates, a division of VGM Group, Inc., is excited to announce their vendor partner, Encore Healthcare, is releasing version three of their Nexus software.

MedSouth announced that at the end of 2020 they achieved significant patient care outcomes with Encore Healthcare’s Nexus Software. To date MedSouth’s respiratory therapists have engaged over 2700 patients and completed 80,000 clinical assessments on patients enrolled in the ongoing Nexus clinical management program.

Encore Healthcare partnered with MedSouth in June of 2019 and the program has reduced complex respiratory readmission by >60% with both their joint venture hospital partnerships featuring MedSouth’s Air Management tm post discharge transition of care program and from community referrals that begin with physician offices. 

“Medsouth has demonstrated it can provide an advanced clinical level of care and coordinate hospital and physician objectives because of the Nexus platform,” said Jon Coy, RRT, AREA VICE PRESIDENt for MedSouth. “The clinical assessments have dramatically increased our effectiveness by customizing the visits, and our respiratory clinical staff have excelled at meeting their patients’ plan of care goals.”

“We have used other platforms before but nothing compares to the outcomes, analytic insights, and growth we have been able to achieve with Nexus platform,” said Gregory Duckworth, senior vice president, MedSouth.

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