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Press Release
Ceresti and Zinnia TV Announce Exciting Partnership for Dementia Care
Ceresti Health and research-backed dementia care television service Zinnia TV announced they will team up to boost support for caregivers through the combination of their evidence-based interventions in 2025. Beginning in January, Ceresti’s tablets will include Zinnia’s calming, gently-paced, plot-free videos that are designed for people who are living with dementia.
“Zinnia and Ceresti share a common mission: to empower caregivers and improve the quality of life for people living with dementia,” said Bill Uniowski, CEO of Zinnia. “By combining Zinnia’s research-backed video content with Ceresti’s proven, personalized caregiver enablement program, we’re delivering innovative tools that bring comfort, connection and better outcomes to families, healthcare systems and physicians alike.”
Press Release
Ceresti Health Joins Florida Association of ACOs to Enhance Dementia Care
Ceresti Health announced its partnership with the Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs) to deploy its proven dementia care program to family caregivers throughout Florida. As part of this partnership, Ceresti invites you to join them and other FLAACOs partners at the annual conference in Orlando from November 20-22.
Webinar
HLTH: Reducing Hospitalizations in Dementia Patients
In this HLTH webinar, you will:
- Recognize the importance of including the family caregiver in the care team
- Learn how caregiver enablement differs from traditional caregiver support
- Discover why including caregiver enablement in your population health strategy can markedly reduce avoidable hospitalizations and overall costs in a largely unengaged population
- Understand how the addition of caregiver enablement to the new CMS GUIDE model achieves meaningful cost savings for ACOs and risk-bearing entities
Video
What’s Hidden in Your Claims Data Could Save You Thousands
The Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs) welcomed Ceresti Health to discuss how caregiver activation can reduce hospitalizations by more than 50% and lower medical costs by over 30%. Plus, Ceresti explains how the new CMS GUIDE model offers significant shared savings at no risk to ACOs— with no out-of-pocket fees.
Webinar
NAACOS: Reducing Hospitalizations in Dementia Patients
Accountable Care Organizations lack the capabilities to manage the healthcare cost of patients with dementia, a cohort that incurs 27% of all Medicare hospitalizations. These patients are not able to self-manage their health and are very rarely engaged effectively in traditional care management programs.
The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations discuss the root causes of avoidable hospitalizations and summarize learnings from clinical studies of Ceresti's caregiver enablement program that reduced patient hospitalizations and improved caregiver well-being.
Webinar
FLAACOS Webinar: What's Hidden In Your Claims Data Could Save You Thousands
Hear how caregiver activation can reduce hospitalizations by more than 50% and lower medical costs by over 30%. Plus, discover how the CMS GUIDE model offers significant shared savings at no risk to ACOs— with no out-of-pocket fees!
Press Release
Ceresti Health Joins Florida Association of ACOs to Enhance Dementia Care
Ceresti Health announced its partnership with the Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs) to deploy its proven dementia care program to family caregivers throughout Florida. As part of this partnership, Ceresti invites you to join them and other FLAACOs partners at the annual conference in Orlando from November 20-22.
Press Release
Ceresti Health Selected by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Test Medicare Dementia Care Model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected Ceresti to participate in a new Medicare alternative payment model designed to support people living with dementia and their caregivers, the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model.
Article
Optimizing Dementia Care for Medicare Populations: A Critical Strategy for ACOs
By John Mach, M.D.
Traditional complex care programs have largely failed to effectively manage dementia patients, who rarely get enrolled or are not appropriately supported once they are part of such programs. As a result, there is a growing recognition that dementia-specific care models are needed to better serve this population and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations.