Elevating senior care

1. Care model designed specifically for you - Moving our of your home into a senior living facility often comes with new risks, both physical and mental. Unchecked, hospitalization rates are six times higher than seniors in community settings. And yet getting the care you need, when you need it can be especially challenging. The logistics of getting to your doctor's clinic is suddenly far more complex and most often the availability of the doctor does not align is neither timely nor convenient. Ascend addresses these by simply bringing the care to you. Our care model is purpose-built to keep long-term care patients out of the hospital; our medical providers address urgent care issues onsite in a timely fashion and perform regular (typically monthly) chronic care visits; our onsite nurses actively monitor vitals, proactively treat wounds and coordinate care with the facility and any specialty doctors that you may see.

2. Physical and Behavioral - Physical health conditions can significantly affect mood, cognition, and independence, while untreated mental health issues like depression, anxiety, or loneliness can lead to worsened physical outcomes and reduced quality of life. By integrating both physical and mental health services—such as routine screenings, medication management, therapy, and social engagement— our care teams provide more holistic, person-centered support that enhances long-term outcomes, dignity, and daily functioning for older adults. Ascend has both therapists trained in supporting long-term care patients as well as psychiatrists for those with medicinal treatment requirements.

3. Focus on prevention - Proactively addressing health risks before they become serious conditions can significantly improve quality of life, reduce hospitalizations, and lower healthcare costs for seniors. Preventive care - including screenings, vaccinations, early detection of cognitive decline, and chronic disease management - helps maintain independence, catch issues early, and avoid crises that can lead to emergency care or institutionalization. Our prevention-focused model supports aging in place, enhances overall well-being, and allows for more stable, personalized care tailored to each resident's evolving needs.

4. Save money - Long-term care seniors are far more likely to be hospitalized than seniors in the community; it is these hospital bills along with the ambulances and follow-on care that really pile up. Ascend's investment in onsite prevention materially lowers your risk of hospitalization and further saves you (or your loved one's) money taxiing back and forth from doctor's clinics.

5. Comfort in simplification - Managing your care across multiple providers can be overwhelming, especially if they are not working together…with Ascend Senior Care, many of these services are provided under one roof, while our dedicated care coordinator works with all your specialists to coordinate care and develop a single, comprehensive care plan. We provide monthly care summaries to our long-term care patients as well as their family / powers-of-attorney with a single concierge phone number (888)250-5708 and central email address (ALF@AscendMedical.com) so that you have one place to go to find out what is going on with your care.

Upon enrolling with Ascend Senior Care, the first step is our comprehensive onboarding assessment to understand your risk factors (physical, mental, metabolic and lifestyle) and work with the facility staff to design a care plan to mitigate those risks and support your healthcare goals. In addition to understanding your health needs, we look to evaluate 3 risk categories that are the most frequent causes of hospitalization:

• Fall risk - by reconciling all your medications, Ascend looks for opportunities to 'deprescribe' and simplify your medication list in ways that reduce adverse reactions that often result in a loss of balance and avoidable fall risk.

• Wounds/Infections - by evaluating any current wounds and lifestyle factors that can contribute to an elevated risk of wounds, Ascend builds a wound care plan that rapidly treats any existing wounds and simultaneously seeks to establish a care plan that lowers the risk of future wounds and infections.

• Dementia/Psychiatric risks - moving to a new home can often be confusing and irritating. Many patients arrive with some level of dementia while others are at elevated risk of developing dementia. Ascend performs routine dementia screening every 6 months so you can identify any cognitive decline and proactively treat it.

Most long-term care patients have multiple co-morbidities, so we typically seek to conduct chronic care visits once a month with routine nursing care in between. Higher risk patients may be seen more often as needs demand.

Our nurses are also equipped with iPads and can coordinate virtual visits with doctors (including specialists) as necessary to allow our patients to avoid the hassle of leaving the facility to seek care.

Ascend is in network with Medicare and all major Medicare Advantage plans. There are no concierge fees to Ascend and all our care is billed through your benefits (Medicare Part B). Ascend also accepts all major Medicare Supplement plans that offset the patient responsibility not covered by Medicare Part B. Patients without a Medicare Supplement plan are typically responsible for around 20% of the cost of their care.

Ascend does not take Medicaid however we do have a financial assistance program for Medicaid eligible patients that offsets any financial burden to our Medicaid patients. Please ask our Health Concierge's for more information on this program.