News and Market Developments
Forbes: Introducing Post-Acute 2.0: New Services Needed to Deliver Care At Home (9/1) - In this op-ed by Ashish Shaw and the Forbes Technology Council, they emphasize the need to promote and create ways to bring more care into the home via hospital-at-home programs and increased use of telehealth and similar technologies. They argue that the next 10 years will be a critical time of growth as the government has a growing interest in these programs and more beneficiaries age into Medicare.
healthleaders: Hospital At Home Takes Patient Experience to New Levels (9/1) - The hospital-at-home model is one way health systems meet consumer and cultural demands for better access, equity, and experience in healthcare. At Vituity, they call this new patient-centric paradigm Health in Place, and believe that it will quickly become a crucial differentiator for their hospital partners. The model also aligns with the quadruple aim of patient experience, population health, reduced costs, and provider wellness.
INTEGRIS Health: INTEGRIS Launches Health @ Home Program (9/1): INTEGRIS Health @ Home and will offer at-home services to patients who would otherwise require inpatient hospitalization. The command center that receives all the data is monitored 24/7 by a team of INTEGRIS Health physicians and nurses who will respond immediately to a patient’s medical needs via video or telephone. Daily in-home visits by a nurse practitioner and other health care professionals are also part of the treatment plan. IV therapies, oxygen treatments, lab tests, mobile imaging like x-rays and ultrasound are all performed in the home. Other services include skilled nursing, medications, infusions, behavioral health and rehabilitation.
Managed Healthcare Executive: Doing More and Saving More with Primary in Home Care (9/1) - During this podcast episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, MHE Associate Editor Briana Contreras interviewed VillageMD’s Senior Medical Director of Village Medical at Home, Dr. Tom Cornwell. Dr. Cornwell discussed the main benefits of primary care at home, which includes the benefit of cost savings for patients, maintaining control of hospital readmissions and others. Dr. Cornwell also noted what has changed in the industry of at-home care and if there has been interest from payers like insurance companies and Medicare in the service.
The Capitolist: Lee Health Partners with DispatchHealth to Offer In-Person Medical Care (8/31) - The new in-home healthcare option that will give community members in Lee County more flexibility when it comes to receiving high-quality medical care. Under the new partnership, patients will be able to request care via phone or by visiting DispatchHealth’s mobile app or website, no referral needed. Once requested, DispatchHealth will deploy an expertly trained medical team to the patient’s home within a few hours, equipped with the necessary tools and treatments, including on-site diagnostics and a CLIA-certified lab.
Home Health Care News: Right at Home Helps Franchisees Launch Vaccination Clinics as Delta Variant Continues to Spread (8/30) - Right at Home has teamed up with the National Minority Health Association (NMHA) and its COVID-19 vaccination reward program, Flex for Checks. Flex for Checks is a community-based program that the NMHA developed as part of an $11.1 million grant from HRSA. Through the program, unvaccinated caregivers are able to receive monetary rewards for getting vaccinated. Specifically, caregivers are eligible to receive $75 per shot and $25 after.
The Record: Home Care, Hospital Associations Further Collaborative to Synchronize Care (8/30) -Home Care Association of New York State Education & Research, Healthcare Association of New York State, and Iroquois Healthcare Association are working together to further enhance collaboration across their respective settings through a Statewide Hospital-Home Care Collaborative. The goal is to provide a blueprint that can be adapted to develop similar collaborative models across the state.
Vox: The Staggering, Exhausting, Invisible Costs of Caring for America's Elderly (8/26) - According to the most recent data from the AARP, an estimated 41.8 million people, or 16.8 percent of the population, currently provides care for an adult over 50. What’s required of them is more complex and time-consuming than just 10 years ago, as caregivers deal with overlapping diagnoses related to physical as the elderly live longer. Since the difficulty of this care remains largely imperceptible there have been few attempts, governmental or otherwise, to make it better, easier, or less of a life-swallowing burden. However, the tech industry has recently realized that the family caregiver market is massive and hugely underserved, and various startups are trying to make certain aspects of caregiving less unnecessarily burdensome.
The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging is Now USAging (8/25) - This announcement, the first name change in the organization's 46-year history, was paired with a new tagline: "Leaders in Aging Well at Home."
Home Health Care News: The SCAN Group Invests in MedArrive, Expects 'Explosive Growth' in Home-Based Care (8/24) - SCAN declined to disclose financial specifics of the investment, but Binoy Bhansali, the corporate VP of corporate development, told Home Health Care News that it’ll likely be “just the start” of its relations with MedArrive. He also added that SCAN would “absolutely” be looking for more investments to make in the home-based care space in the near term.
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