As a Professional, Would You Benefit from Signing Up With FeldCare Connects?
Clinical settings don’t allow SLPs, PTs, OTs, and RDs to utilize entrepreneurial skills or work ad hoc. That may be fine if you are looking for a full-time, salaried position. However, if you prefer to build independence into your workday or want more varied work than your clinic offers, FeldCare Connects is your resource for flexible therapy work.
On the other side of the coin, you may be a patient services coordinator who desperately needs to find quality clinicians for your patients. FeldCare Connects provides a referral portal filled with qualified specialists who want to help patients in need of in-home therapy services.
Why Use FeldCare Connects?
Our goal is to connect caring therapists to home health agencies so that both parties can increase their focus on patient care. This means that patients, therapists, and home health coordinators can benefit from the connectivity provided by FeldCare Connects.
Clinicians use FeldCare Connects because they want to:
- Work with patients outside of a clinic.
- Have work outside of their existing salaried or contract position.
- Make choices about the kind of services they will provide.
- Gain new experience with homebound patients.
- Work in the patient’s natural environment.
- Make their own schedule.
- Use a one-portal solution for independent work.
Home health companies and service coordinators utilize FeldCare Connects because they:
- Want to work with therapists on an on-demand basis.
- Have patients in need of special care that doesn’t match the skills or capacity of the current in-house staff.
- Only want to provide concierge services to patients.
- Have an out-sized patient load.
- Want a one-stop solution.
Matching home health companies with clinicians looking for independent work is what we do! Read on to find out if you are a professional who could benefit from using FeldCare Connects.
Five Professions That Benefit from FeldCare Connects Services
The clinicians that use our services are looking for independent contract work. With that in mind, here are five professions that benefit from our services:
- Patient Services Coordinator
It will come as no surprise that a coordinator working in home health would benefit from greater access to clinicians. We are delighted to connect clinics with the specialists their patients need. Clinicians using FeldCare Connects specialize in everything from regaining mobility to determining the best diet for their recovery. You can learn more about connecting with qualified therapists and clinicians here.
2. Physical Therapists
Supporting recovery at home is a rewarding opportunity. Often, a therapist will see a patient anywhere from every two days to every two weeks in physical therapy. When a patient is in pain or a movement is difficult for them to do, it can be a challenge to get a patient to find ways to perform necessary exercises outside of the clinic.
In-home physical therapy can pose interesting challenges for PTs. Showing a patient how to do movements in their home can be a key to encouraging them to participate in the exercises, even when the therapist isn’t present.
Additionally, because therapists who work with FeldCare Connects are independent contractors, they have the freedom to determine their schedule and focus on the areas that interest them most.
If you are a PT who wants to explore a particular injury or post-surgery support, gaining more patients in that area could be exactly what you’d like to do with your day.
3. Speech-Language Pathologists/Speech Therapists
SLPs/STs know that there are many reasons a patient may need speech therapy. Medical challenges like Multiple Sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease and recovery from a jaw injury, brain injury, or a stroke can all cause speech impairments. Additionally, patients with a chronic illness such as MS may be unable to leave their homes.
That’s when FeldCare Connects, home health agencies and freelance SLPs and SLTs come in! As a freelancer, an SLP can focus on an area of interest, choose their patients, and determine their role in treatment. Referral agencies and FeldCare Connects offer administrative support to any therapist using the portal, so the SLP can focus on utilizing their skills and growing their freelance business.
If you are an SLP or SLT and have always had an entrepreneurial spirit, FeldCare Connects is the perfect portal to use as you explore contract work.
4. Occupational Therapists
Occupational therapy is particularly tricky to do in a natural setting – and that’s the fascinating thing about home health for OTs. If you are an OT and you have always wanted to provide services outside of a clinical setting, connecting with the FeldCare referral portal is a great place to start. OTs that connect with referral sources through the FeldCare network find ways to provide treatment for issues ranging from Alzheimer’s to cardiac rehabilitation to stroke recovery.
Working with patients provided by referrers allows occupational therapists to work with a wider variety of injuries and conditions than they may find in a clinical or school setting.
Additionally, if you are an OT who enjoys challenges and you are excited by finding ways to help a patient utilizing only what you bring with you and those items in their home or outdoor environment – working in home health will spark your creative side.
5. Registered Dietitians
What is more exciting to an RD than seeing what the patient has in the pantry and refrigerator? Working freelance with patients in their homes allows registered dieticians to get a much deeper perspective into their diet, what they actually will eat, and what is off the table. (Pun intended.)
When registered dietitians connect with referral sources through FeldCare Connects, they gain a deeper understanding of their patients and work with the patient closely to come up with a healthy and realistic diet.
Clinicians working in the freelance space benefit from determining their workload, setting their role, and learning how client care translates into the day-to-day when they treat a patient in a home health setting.
If this sounds exciting to you, get connected with referrers through FeldCare Connects. Sign up here.
Reach out to FeldCare Connects to kickstart your journey in home health now! Either call us at (818) 926-9057, or go to feldcareconnects.com/clinicians
