-: So my name is Ryan Brown, and I am the DME supervisor
of the home medical equipment division for Promedica.
So DME stands for durable medical equipment.
So basically what my role is for that is,
I'm overseeing day-to-day operations at our division,
so any patient that would be discharged from a hospital
that Promedica owns, or any of the surrounding hospitals
that would send us orders, we deal with all those discharges
so that we can get patients home and out of the hospital
as quickly as possible.
And then we continue care with them,
do everything that we need to do as far as
getting them supplied with any equipment
that they need to take care of themselves,
whether it's oxygen, whether it's hospital beds
or something simple like a walker.
Other things that I'm in charge of doing is,
day-to-day operations, so hiring, training,
payroll, all of that stuff, as well as, I'm on a team
for a division that is working on
quality improvement and efficiency.
So we kind of skim over and look over
stuff that we have every now and again,
just to make sure that the way that we're doing it
is up to the ever-changing
qualifications and
what Medicare or other insurance providers
would deem necessary for us to keep up with.
There are difficult decisions to be made.
Sometimes patients call in, and they're
upset about something, they're having issues
with their insurance, or issues with the doctor's orders,
or sometimes even an issue with what's happened with us
in the past and how we've taken care of them.
And typically, anytime that there's a patient
who is upset about something, they're gonna be
passed off to me as the supervisor
to kind of take the information from them and talk to them.
Other things that could go on
that are decisions that need to be made are,
are we going to, if we don't have all the documentation yet,
are we going to send this stuff out to the patient
right away to get them out of hospitals,
or are we going to wait and do a home delivery,
or see what we can do.
Those are the kind of decisions
that I have to make on a day-to-day basis.