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Ceresti Health
Ceresti Health is a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that turns family caregivers into the front line of dementia care. Through a cell-enabled tablet, weekly one-on-one coaching from a personal care navigator, and claims-driven predictive analytics, Ceresti helps spouses and adult children spot the small changes - a urinary tract infection, a missed medication - that otherwise snowball into costly hospitalizations. The company sells to Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs, and providers operating under the CMS GUIDE payment model, and backs its program with a documented cost-savings guarantee: more than 50% fewer avoidable hospitalizations and roughly $6,800 in medical savings per enrolled patient per year.
Dirk Soenksen
Dirk Soenksen is the co-founder and CEO of Ceresti Health, a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that treats the family caregiver as the unit of care for people living with dementia. An engineer by training, he first reshaped a corner of medicine by founding Aperio, the company that turned the glass microscope slide into a digital image and became the global leader in digital pathology before Danaher's Leica Biosystems acquired it in 2012. A coffee on his last day at Leica sent him into a second act: instead of imaging the brain, he set out to support the overwhelmed spouses and adult children caring for it.
Better Health
Better Health is a modern medical supplier and digital care platform that helps people living with chronic conditions get the supplies they need at home, delivered with peer support, education, and insurance handled for them. Founded in 2019 by Naama Stauber Breckler and Adam Breckler, the company bundles diabetes, ostomy, urology, incontinence, and wound care products with human peer coaching, operating across 48 states and contracting directly with payers including Medicare, Medicaid, Cigna, Humana, Florida Blue, and Oscar.