Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Hero — a digital home-based care medication management platform — has teamed up with Henry Ford Health System. Through the partnership, Henry Ford’s in-home care patients will have access to Hero’s platform to help with their medication regimens. Additional reporting by Andrew Donlan.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2022

The article is based on a panel discussion that took place during a live session with Helen Adeosun, CEO and Founder of CareAcademy; Jennifer Sheets, president and CEO of Interim HealthCare; and Tim O’Rourke, President of Help at Home. The panel took place at the Home Care Conference in Chicago held on December 9, 2021.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Medtech and connected applications drive value-based care initiatives and consist of many technologies, such as: Patient wearables: Interactive equipment allows real-time data collection for in-patient and in-home care. In addition, centralized command centers help doctors and RNs manage capacity, equipment and supplies.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Unless you're looking at the cost across all of the healthcare elements – into the primary care, the home care elements – you won't have a full understanding of the total cost of care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Care coordination with other important social determinant drivers – like personal care, transportation, meals delivery and physical activity, as well as clinical care coordination with the health system, primary care doctors and emergent referral sources for quality and timeliness of care, will all be important in the upcoming year.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2024

Over the last few years, however, it has dramatically expanded its offerings, and now the company delivers in-home care for everything from routine health conditions to post-hospital recovery. That care can usually start receiving in-home care within 72 hours, too, according to MedStar.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The company offers personal care and in-home nursing services, as well as concierge services. These centers offer care for everything from emergencies to everyday checkups. “As As part of their membership, in addition to the brick and mortar facilities, they also have care navigation,” Howland said. “In

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For us at Dina, that means how do we activate and coordinate the very best in-home care, and how do we unlock visibility into how that care is progressing to the people who are typically not part of that process, such as insurance companies, physicians, health systems, etc.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“The world is continuing to age, and not only are we continuing to age, but we’re continuing to see people who, otherwise, would have gone into a facility realizing that their options include home care,” she said. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Right at Home has more than 700 home care franchise locations across the U.S.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Chartowick: I started in a support-staff role that grew into a larger role in supporting a local doctor who ran multiple organizations.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Kang: 40 years ago I was a geriatrician up in Boston, and actually did home visits before anyone ever knew what a home visit was. For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc. I think that was a big change for home health agencies.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, according to our internal data, nearly 12% of patients who call our nurse line with a pre-intent of visiting an urgent care facility were appropriately redirected to visit an emergency room instead. Health Dialog has a diverse patient base calling our 24/7 nurse line. Who typically calls a nurse line and why?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To be eligible for an I-SNP, enrollees usually have to need institutional-level care for 90 days or more, for instance. CMS originally created I-SNP models only for institutional patients who are in nursing homes,” Parvinchiha told Home Health Care News.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Quality of care is equal to, if not greater than, the care provided in a traditional brick-and-mortar setting. Providers are often able to spend more time with patients and provide dedicated one-to-one, personalized attention and care. This is really the future of care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Its home-based care network is made up of about 26 agencies, including companies like LHC Group, Bayada Home Health Care and Pavilion Medical Home Care & Staffing. We’re working at various levels, and engaging all types of home-based providers,” Gammie said.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

Now, there’s a better recognition of the value at-home care provides, and the appropriate company – VillageMD – to help support that kind of model. VillageMD] has a huge desire to expand home-based primary care,” Cornwell said at the event. You’ll have this high readmission rate home with home health,” Cornwell said.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2023

The study, which was fielded between December 2022-January 2023, features responses from 500 respondents working in the healthcare field, including doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators across the United States. This shift, however, has created additional personal safety vulnerabilities for caregivers entering the home.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“When you look at Walgreens’ assets, they have their community pharmacists, a trusted brand, a trusted relationship and a more frequent relationship between the patient and the store than most patients have with their doctors. Walgreens has the privileged position to be able to inform, influence and support care in the community.”.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By introducing a contactless solution for continuous and autonomous vital sign monitoring, including resting heart rate and respiratory rate, Xandar Kardian is revolutionizing patient monitoring and at-home care through incredibly accurate measurements that can be leveraged to predict health outcomes for better proactivity by providers.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2021

The health system’s home-based care arm CommonSpirit Health at Home is headquartered in Milford, Ohio. It offers specialized home care, home infusion, hospice and medical transportation services nationwide. There’s some sort of ability to feel like you’re in control of your care and your environment.”.

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Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

She has also co-authored publications with senior researchers who have more than 20 years of experience in long-term care and health-services research concerning older populations. Jessica Jones: With over 300,000 home care workers trained, we are a market-leading training and compliance solution for home care and home health agencies.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

Earlier this year, Advocate Aurora acquired MobileHelp , a home-focused provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) capabilities and personal emergency response systems. The company also acquired the home care franchise Senior Helpers in 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Strikingly, the trust deficit with retail stores for medical care was substantial, with 80% of consumers telling Wolters Kluwer that they would “probably never” go to a department store for health care. adults were open to have medications prescribed by a specially-trained pharmacist instead of a doctor.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“The best athletes cross-train, same thing here with doctors. Patients do better, and the doctors are better.”. In addition to its own physician offices and hospitals, the company provides care in clinics, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, and long-term care acute hospitals.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They’re now using that shared experience on the forefront of change to launch Sprinter Health, an on-demand mobile health startup that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists into the home for lab draws, vital checks, COVID-19 testing and more. Think DoorDash for your next blood draw,” Sprinter CTO Behar told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“So long as we are able to contract with a health plan or the government across all of our business units, they really get the full continuum and we can really bridge all their necessary transitions of care.”. Communication in its home-based care programs is key, Womack said.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Add to this the fact that patients with multiple chronic illnesses see multiple doctors – all creating care plans and prescribing medications to address their specialized areas. Additionally, given the current shortage of home care workers , trained aides are hard to come by. In addition, President Biden’s $1.9

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. Both Sprinter and Firefly believe the typical primary care journey is not working.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

Like most of their home-based care peers, Friendly Faces Senior Care has faced challenges around recruiting, but James has leaned into a strategy that is working for the company. “I What are the other home care agencies paying, and what are other industries paying that are competing for our workforce?

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of Florida’s largest not-for-profit public health systems — Lee Health — is beefing up its virtual- and at-home care capabilities. Founded in 1916, Lee Health operates four acute care hospitals, two specialty hospitals, three skilled nursing units, seven outpatient centers and three walk-in clinics.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Similarly, the adoption of chatbots in healthcare, especially in areas like skilled nursing facilities where there tend to be problems with staff shortages , can reduce the strain on limited resources, allowing skilled professionals to dedicate more of their time and energy to cases that demand the full use of their expertise.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But the vast majority of the doctors and nurse practitioners that provide treatment to LifeMD’s patients across all 50 states, this is their full-time job and they love it. We have a team of doctors that really cares about building the brand and really cares about providing comprehensive care.’’

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