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News and Market Developments
Florida Today: Health First: Hospital Quality Care Made Possible in the Comfort of Your Own Home (6/4) - Originally created out of a combination of necessity and opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Health First’s Hospital at Home program has now reached 1,000 patients as hospital leaders seek to grow the program as a permanent trend in medical care.
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) News: VCU Aims to Meet Demand for Geriatricians (6/3) - Experts across disciplines are prioritizing the specialty with enhanced curriculum for M.D. students, a robust fellowship program and continuing education for other specialists to care for older adults within their practices. VCU’s geriatrics service includes outpatient, inpatient, palliative, home-based and nursing facility care across three locations, plus a 12-month geriatric medicine fellowship program. The curriculum includes topics such as healthy aging, age bias and medication management, plus a home-based primary care visit.
Parkview Health: Parkview Health Partners with Home Health to Advance Care in the Home (6/3) - Parkview Health and CommonSpirit Health at Home announced a joint venture to provide home-based healthcare throughout northeast Indiana. The partnership, named Parkview Health at Home, launched on May 19. The partnership enables the integration of CommonSpirit Health at Home’s electronic medical record system, Homecare Homebase, and their chronic disease management programs.
Sun Sentinel: Florida Seniors Get New Option for Mental Health Help From Home (6/3) – Medicare enrollees in Florida now have greater access to mental health help from home. Talkspace is rolling out its service to five million traditional Medicare members in Florida. “Given the alarmingly limited number of behavioral health providers that accept Medicare, Talkspace now opens up access to affordable, high-quality care for millions of Medicare members — within days — from the comfort of their own homes,” said Dr. Jon Cohen, Talkspace chief executive officer.
Becker's Hospital Review: 'A Different Dimension': Where Hospitals are Heading (5/31) - As more health systems dive into hospital-at-home models, supply chain leaders told Becker's their industry is facing a tidal wave of change — and it's time to start surfing. Steve Downey, chief supply chain and patient support services officer of Cleveland Clinic, and Steven Chyung, chief supply chain and procurement executive at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, said their responsibilities are moving outside hospital walls and into patient homes.
Home Health Care News: Hospital-at-Home Enabler Resilient Healthcare Partners with Choice Health at Home (5/31) - Choice Health at Home and Resilient Healthcare have formed a partnership that will give the former access to digital health technologies and hospital-at-home capabilities. Resilient is a technology company that enables health care organizations to deliver higher-acuity care in the home. Choice Health at Home is a home health, hospice, palliative care, rehabilitation and home care services provider. It operates locations across Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas. Through the partnership, Choice Health at Home will have access to Resilient’s comprehensive tech stack.
WellSky: WellSky and Ava Launch Solution to Combat Staffing Crisis for Home-Based Care Agencies (5/30) - MHH member Wellsky announced the WellSky TeamEngage powered by Ava, which would increase home-based providers employee retention, reliability, and recruitment. The solution incentivizes and rewards caregivers for completing targeted activities and achieving performance goals, fostering a culture of appreciation while improving staff retention rates and agency differentiation.
Home Health Care News: BrightSpring Health Services Views Home-Based Care as The Key to Margin Uptick (5/30) - BrightSpring Health Services delivers care to patients in the home and in the community. The company focuses on complex populations, offering primary care, home- and community-based services, pharmacy services and rehab services to over 400,000 consumers throughout 50 states. BrightSpring highlights home-based primary care as a big future opportunity.
Home Health Care News: How Integrated Home Care Services Unlocks Value-Based Care for Home-Based Care Providers (5/28) - Though it has become more common for larger home-based care providers to enter and find success in value-based care arrangements, so many small- to mid-sized companies still struggle in this area. Helping these kinds of home-based care companies see success in these arrangements has become Integrated Home Care Services’ sweet spot as a driver of value-based care. Paul Pino, co-founder and chief growth and analytics officer at Integrated Home Care Services, recently joined Home Health Care News’ Disrupt podcast to talk about the roadblocks smaller providers face when trying to enter value-based care arrangements, and how his company helps navigate these challenges.
Health Data Management: Home-Based Acute Care Extends Care Beyond Hospital Walls (5/23) - Market forces, the pandemic and patient preferences are enabling the transition to home-based hospital-level care, and patients are all in favor. Patients are getting on board with receiving increasingly intensive care in their homes. And, most importantly, reimbursement and federal policy appears to be supportive of the change. While hopes are high, the initiative is embryonic and healthcare organizations must achieve a massive mind-shift in strategy and determine how to scale small pilots into larger numbers.
Healthcare Finance: Cityblock and Centene Form Primary Care Partnership in Florida (5/22) - Medicaid value-based primary care company Cityblock is teaming with Florida-based Sunshine Health, a Centene subsidiary, to provide primary care and care coordination services to high-need, hard-to-reach Medicaid members in 11 Central Florida counties. The partnership includes wrap-around services offered to members 24/7 and across modalities, allowing members the option to see their multidisciplinary care team virtually, in the home or at a local clinic.
Fierce Healthcare: Mayo Clinic Partners with Zipline (5/22) - Mayo Clinic is partnering with Zipline to provide drone delivery service for medications and supplies directly to patients' homes as part of its advanced hospital-at-home program. The health system will integrate Zipline's Platform 2 drone system into its campuses in Jacksonville, Florida, and Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo Clinic will use Zipline’s zero-emission, autonomous drones for quick deliveries. Through the drone service, if a caregiver notices a need for an acute medical intervention, Zipline can deliver medications and supplies from the hospital to a person’s home within minutes.
Modern Healthcare: Hospital-at-Home Grows Despite Regulatory Uncertainty (5/17) - Health systems and technology companies are betting big on home-based hospital care, despite regulatory uncertainty about the program’s future. Studies have found relatively low mortality rates and rehospitalizations among hospital-at-home patients.
Politico: Hospital Care is Leaving the Hospital (5/13) - Hospitals have a new message for patients: Stay home. Hospital leaders are building their telehealth offerings and hospital-at-home programs. Congress is urging the leaders on, with legislation in the works that would help hospitals expand their at-home offerings and allow Medicare to continue paying for telehealth, which lawmakers temporarily permitted when Covid struck. A Carper aide told POLITICO that he plans to soon introduce another measure that would make hospital-at-home offerings permanent.
Mass General Brigham: Arnita's Story: Bringing Emergency Care to the Home (5/8) - It's not easy for Arnita Harvey to leave her home. The 80-year-old Charlestown resident is legally blind and lives on the fourth floor of an apartment building. Arnita received care through Home Hospital Emergency Care (HHEC), an offering from Mass General Brigham's Healthcare at Home. HHEC enables select patients to be treated in their home rather than at an emergency department (ED) or urgent care clinic. For patients like Arnita, that's a big deal. Upon their request, patients are referred to the HHEC through their Mass General Brigham PCP. If the PCP thinks the patient needs emergency or urgent care but would be better served by staying home, they make the referral to HHEC.
Novant Health: Novant Health Launches Hospital at Home Program (4/23) - Hospital at Home has many of the hallmarks of a care experience inside the four walls of the hospital. Patients get a daily visit from a physician, who assesses them virtually. Novant Health envisions the program, which launched in March, will eventually care for as many as a dozen patients locally each day. The program received $2.7 million in financial support from the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation to help cover startup operational expenses.
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