Lives of Consequence
Michael Cabot ’02
Social Worker at ReAdmission Solutions
“Everywhere I’ve lived, I’ve gotten involved in community life,” says Michael Cabot ’02. “That started at Hobart.”
In addition to majoring in sociology and minoring in Holocaust studies, Cabot was an advertising manager for The Herald, a brother and board member of Chi Phi fraternity, and president and vice president of the campus Hillel Chapter.
After graduation, he pursued his passion for social work and service to the Jewish community. He enrolled at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, earning his master’s in social work in 2005. During that time, he completed his field placement and internship in the Jewish community in Cleveland.
Once he left Case Western, Cabot moved to New Jersey to serve as a Jewish community director, and later earned a second master’s in Jewish education and communal service with a focus on non-profit management, from Gratz College near Philadelphia.
Today, he is a social worker at ReAdmission Solutions, a one-of-a-kind healthcare company in Philadelphia specializing in reducing patient readmission. The company’s year-long program offers Cabot’s patients, mainly senior citizens on Medicare, a hub for coordinating with family members and caregivers to ensure successful recovery and health management.
Serving as a liaison among patients, healthcare providers, social service agencies and insurance companies, Cabot works with patients “to give them the tools they need to keep them independent and prevent them from being readmitted,” he explains.
Through clinical services, technology solutions and analytics, the company has “been able to reduce readmissions anywhere between 25 and 40 percent,” Cabot says. “We have a team of nurses that monitor patients’ vital signs and use remote tele-monitoring to address patients’ needs before they’re readmitted. Our biggest contract has been with Independence Blue Cross, and the amount of money we’ve been able to save them is mindboggling.”
As he now splits his time between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, Cabot remains active in the Jewish communities in those areas, which informs “the rewarding relationships I develop with my patients and colleagues,” he says. “As a religious person, I believe that while we may not realize why something happens, there’s always an opportunity for growth and positivity.”