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Our guides provide you with the skills, checklists and tips for caring for your loved one. Our content is authored by highly qualified registered nurses with a combined total of 60 years of expertise in various healthcare settings such as acute, community and home care.

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  • VNS Health Total: Acupuncture

    Acupuncture may help relieve chronic pain intensity. Even those with a fear of needles are able to embrace this ancient procedure.

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  • VNS Health Total: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening (Triple-A or AAA)

    8 in 10 people with a ruptured AAA die before reaching the hospital, and most never knew they had one.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Worldwide Emergency/Urgently Needed Services

    Worldwide emergency coverage for emergency care and urgently needed services. Feel free to move about the world with $50,000 per year plan coverage.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: “Welcome to Medicare” Preventive Visit

    Medicare rolls out the red carpet with a dedicated visit for a complete systems check and program education upon initial enrollment.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Vision Care

    Routine vision exams and standard eyewear. They say that life begins at 40, but so does faulty eyesight! Poor vision impacts safety, mood, and thinking.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Urgently Needed Services (Urgent Care)

    This is not emergency care. This is care provided at an urgent care center or by an out-of-network provider because a network provider is unavailable.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Transportation

    7 round trips (or 14 single trips) annually to plan-approved, health-related locations such as appointments, procedures, and programs.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Telehealth

    Telehealth, or virtual care, has become so sophisticated as to be able to replace many in-person office visits.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET)

    Supervised exercise therapy (SET) is used to alleviate painful and disruptive symptoms associated with peripheral artery disease.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation (Smoking Cessation, counseling to stop smoking/tobacco use)

    Tobacco use causes cancers throughout the body, not just in the lungs of smokers. Tobacco users spend $70 per week ($280/month) on tobacco products.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Care

    SNF is post-acute care, typically following a hospitalization, provided most often in a facility, that involves licensed nursing care and oversight.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Services to Treat Kidney Disease

    Dialysis is used in end-stage renal (kidney) disease to replace kidney function and cleanse the body of toxins.

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Helpful is an app to make caregiving easier. We integrate your loved one’s insurance benefits, medical records and caregiving guides into an immediate, accessible and user-friendly experience. Helpful supports your care needs by eliminating administrative tasks and providing technology to support your caregiving experience.

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