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Allina Health spinoff to help health systems build hospital-at-home programs

Healthcare It News

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. ON THE RECORD.

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Inside ‘Frontpoint Health’: Health System Vet Builds New Home Health Business Around Medicare Advantage

Home Health Care

Brent Korte was the chief home care officer at the Washington-based EvergreenHealth Home Care for more than eight years. During that time, it went all the way from a home health agency that was a financial drag on a hospital system to the point where it was an integral part of it. Why Dallas, to start.

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How PACE Could Cover More Older Adults

Home Health Care

Traditionally, PACE cares for dual-eligible seniors in a given community. “We We refer to them as Medicare-only. I think one of the most important things that could happen to accelerate access to PACE would be to address some legislation that we have pending on Capitol Hill, relating to the Medicare Part D prescription drug premium.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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The Direct Care Workforce

NASHP

A certified nurse assistant (CNA) is qualified to work in a Medicare-certified nursing facility. Home Health Aides. Home health aides (HHAs) also provide personal assistance with self-care activities and health-related tasks, such as changing bandages or administering medications.

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Emerging Respite Care Strategies in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waivers for Older Adults, Adults with Physical Disabilities, and their Family Caregivers

NASHP

With caregivers increasingly asked to perform more intense and complex care , respite care is integral to giving caregivers a much-needed break. Respite care is a service typically delivered in the home or a facility-based setting that provides short-term relief for caregivers.

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Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

The pandemic has highlighted the tragic impact of substandard conditions at nursing homes, which are home to many of our most at-risk community members. million people live in over 15,500 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes across the nation. More than 1.4