Home Health Care

JUNE 30, 2023

A new report found that hospital capacity challenges will persist for the next decade. That, in turn, is a promising sign for more at-home care opportunities in the future. The complexity in patients is one of the driving factors in an increase in case mix index and longer hospital stays.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 16, 2024

RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2023

One of the most renowned hospitals in the U.S. recently celebrated the three-year anniversary of its hospital-at-home program. In 2019, Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia stated that high-acuity home care would be part of not only Mayo Clinic’s future, but the health care industry’s at large.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 7, 2023

The new partners will be developing “new hospital-at-home offerings that will enhance the patient experience of receiving hospital-level care in the home,” according to a release. Our view is that hospital at home is one of the most important innovations in U.S. health care delivery.”

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 7, 2023

The multi-year partnership combines Atrium’s hospital-at-home program and existing telemedicine infrastructure with Best Buy’s at-home care business, along with the retailer’s home installation and supply chain capabilities.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 14, 2022

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. The hospital has a normal readmission rate of 14.7%

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company now provides a range of health care services to patients in their homes — aiming to prevent costly hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Initially known for in-home urgent care, DispatchHealth has expanded its services over the years, most recently launching a dedicated hospital-at-home program.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND. Here are some tips to set programs up for success.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 25, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Personal home care providers have begun to ditch blanket approaches, instead opting for more patient-by-patient specificity. Going further to meet individual client needs enables home care to make a greater impact, while also increasing client satisfaction.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2024

The private equity firm Waud Capital has acquired the home care franchise Senior Helpers. The health system is now offloading its primary home care asset to a private equity company that has become very active in home-based care of late. The need for high-quality, in-home senior care has never been greater.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care agencies that are part of larger franchise networks get to reap the benefits of operating under established names and reputations. The Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based Griswold is a home care franchise. It provides personal care services in 30 states.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is growing its at-home care efforts once again, this time through an expansion of its partnership with Geisinger Health System. In July of 2022, Best Buy began leveraging its Geek Squad to help Geisinger better care for chronically ill patients in the home.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2024

Gloria Kirkendolph, Caregiver for 24 Hour Home Care, has been named a 2023 Frontline Honors honoree by Home Health Care News. I then discovered 24 Hour Home Care’s in-home care programs and knew that caregiving was my calling. Kirkendolph: Caregiving is a humbling job.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2023

Home care company leaders are increasingly being challenged to find creative ways to solve some of the sector’s most persistent issues, while looking to thrive in a space that has more eyes on it than ever. One thing that is on the mind of most home care CEOs is the way they’ve seen billing rates change over the past year or two. “I

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2022

Over the years, the company – which is a rapidly growing home care services company that operates in the U.S. But despite its voracious appetite for dealmaking, the company hasn’t lost sight of what’s on the plate in front of them: dementia care. and Canada – has become a regular on the M&A scene. Need more than 5 members?

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The hospital-at-home concept was pioneered over two decades ago at Johns Hopkins. Now, it feels like just any other part of the at-home care ecosystem. Biofourmis has been working with governments across the world to address COVID-19-related health care challenges, Hussain said. But in the U.S,

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As costs of caring for chronic disease rise and hospital staffing remains challenging, remotely monitored home care is emerging as a cost-saving frontier.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Around 2019, Medicare Advantage (MA) was all the rave among home care providers. Included in those were plenty of areas of opportunity for personal home care providers to step in and become more involved with the Medicare dollar. “We’re

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Home Health Care

MARCH 14, 2022

For seniors, receiving skilled care at home – instead of at a skilled nursing facility (SNF) – could have considerable benefits, including better patient experience and lower costs. That’s according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It also has to think outside of the box for ways to support the people who need at-home care the most. Brady Priest, the divisional home care CEO at Clover, believes that its care and support capabilities are differentiators. They’ll feed you, they’ll take care of you. The home-based care benefits work.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Nasdaq: SHCR) has expanded its home care offerings. The company will now bring its care management and transitional care programs for high-risk populations to more than just Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. “We Overall, the expansion is a move to further improve care transitions, coordination and continuity.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. Resilient is a Plano, Texas-based home-centered management services organization that works with home health providers on hospital-at-home and care management services. “Yes,

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 9, 2023

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) pointed out Wednesday that only 1% of care in the U.S. is delivered in the home. Before brick-and-mortar hospitals and facilities became the center of the U.S. health care system, as much as 40% of care was delivered in the home.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the years, home care providers have gone beyond just forming relationships with industry peers. In general, home care organizations have partnered with food delivery companies, fitness companies and home modification companies, just to name a few examples. It connects seniors with on-demand transportation.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. Parodi also flagged the patient satisfaction component: "We're consistently running at 4.95

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. The HIYH model provided an opportunity to expand capacity without construction of new hospital beds.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 20, 2023

When Medicare Advantage (MA) plans began offering expanded supplemental benefits, it opened the door for more engagement with home care providers. Flashforward to 2023, and nearly a quarter of plans are offering some level of in-home support services. That’s according to Tyler Overstreet Cromer, principal at the Washington, D.C.-based

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Home Health Care

MARCH 3, 2022

A Los Angeles-based health system is teaming up with a home care provider to give patients an easier path in their pursuit of aging in place. PIH Health announced Thursday it is teaming up with 24 Hour Home Care and adding a customized service called “PIH Health at Home.” year over year.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 28, 2022

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group is attached to one of the top health systems and educational institutions in the country. It’s often a place where health care breakthroughs take place and new home-based care ideas are formed. How has home-based care advanced over the past few years, from your perspective?

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The assets that are at Sharecare today, like CareLinx, give us the ability to truly impact the post-acute care space,” Layton said at the J.P. The Atlanta-based Sharecare (Nasdaq: SHCR) is a digital health company that helps people manage their health care needs. So how do we cross sell those hospitals to become enterprise clients?

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This year saw home care providers further build on the spotlight the public health emergency placed on the industry. As part of our annual tradition, Home Health Care News caught up with eight home care leaders to document their predictions on trends, challenges and opportunities for the coming year.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2023

Simultaneously, health systems are looking for ways to keep these patients healthy and out of the hospital. This also allows us to reduce the length of time a patient is staying in a hospital when lower-touch, lower-cost settings would provide just as much utility,” he said. That aspect of the partnership is key, ElLaissi said.

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Home Health Care

MAY 12, 2023

As one of the largest health systems in the country, Intermountain Healthcare has moved mountains to establish its place in the home-based care space. At the helm of these efforts are Dr. Nathan Starr, who serves as the medical director of home services for Intermountain. Everything is so built around hospitals and clinics.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2024

In the spring of 2020, Atrium Health — now a part of Advocate Health, post-merger — implemented a system that allowed patients with less severe COVID-19 cases to opt into an at-home care option. The move made it a pioneer in the at-home virtual health space. This is hospital-level care being provided in someone’s home.

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Home Health Care

MAY 8, 2023

Court Square Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in New York, has made a strategic capital investment in Team Select Home Care, the two companies announced Monday. Based in Phoenix, Team Select is a home-based care provider that serves the medically complex pediatric population as well as seniors.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Gentiva – the company comprised of the hospice and personal home care assets of what was formerly Kindred at Home – has reportedly agreed to acquire ProMedica’s Heartland home care and hospice assets for $710 million. Led by the former CEO of Kindred, David Causby, Gentiva is backed by both Humana Inc.

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