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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Apr 27;57(6):1103–1109. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02278.x

Table 4.

Healthcare Utilization for 468 Patients in the Year Before and Year After Enrollment in House Calls for Seniors Program

Site of Care Number
Charges ($)
Before After Before After
Total ambulatory care visits 3,391 7,626 75,281,062 85,603,228

 Wishard emergency department 695 594 42,154,866 36,349,496

 Non-Wishard emergency department 110 92 6,671,993 5,629,888

 Wishard primary care 1,111 193 11,906,230 1,566,203

 House Calls for Seniors 187 4,073 623,959 19,260,693

 Mental health home visits 188 1,978 1,416,100 17,173,734

 Wishard specialty care 1,100 696 12,507,914 5,623,214

Hospitalizations, n (mean, median length of stay) 330 (6.6, 5.0) 356 (6.3, 5.0) 4,027,851 4,583,327

 Wishard hospitalizations, n (mean, median length of stay) 238 (6.1, 5.0) 288 (6.1, 5.0) 2,664,294 3,550,551

 Non-Wishard hospitalizations, n (mean, median length of stay) 92 (8.0, 6.5) 68 (7.5, 6.0) 1,363,557 1,032,776

Mean total charges 14,122 19,843

Grand total charges 79,308,913 90,186,555