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News and Market Developments
Modern Healthcare: Virtual Hospital-at-Home Could Offer Alternative to CMS Waiver (11/27) - At-home hospital care that is entirely virtual can be as safe and effective as in-facility care, according to researchers at a California medical center touting an alternative to traditional hospital-at-home.
Home Health Care News: How Providers Are Turning The Home Into A Hospital (11/27) - Homes must be designed and modified to meet residents’ changing health care needs, as the boundaries between health care facilities and homes become less distinct. Assessing patient eligibility for home-based care is a critical first step. Understanding the patient’s environment and family dynamics is crucial. Discovering these factors often requires a thorough assessment, which serves as a fact-finding mission.
New York Times: So Many Days Lost at the Doctor’s Office (11/23) - Patients are spending more time at the doctors, between diagnostic, imaging, therapeutic, and procedural appointments. Researchers are beginning to quantify the burdens. Health care systems themselves have a major role to play in reducing treatment burdens. They could put specialists in the same building, for example, and adopt payment models that reduce incentives to schedule additional visits and tests.
The Washington Post: From the ER to Your House: Why Hospitals are Treating Patients at Home (11/25) - The hospital-at-home movement has proliferated during the past decade, reshaping how acute care is delivered and health systems are financed. But nurses and others raise concerns about whether health companies will shutter or gut hospitals and deprive patients of regular, immediate in-person care.
Los Angeles Times: Op-Comic: Healthcare that Keeps Patients Out of the Hospital While Saving Money? Fund It (11/22) - Hospital-at-Home improves the patient experience and offers a renewed sense of joy and purpose to clinicians, centering the humanity of the people they treat.
Modern Healthcare: How Tech Companies are Working to Expand Hospital-at-Home (11/22) - Medically Home, Vivalink and Inbound Health are looking to make it easier for health systems to staff, monitor and manage patients getting hospital-level care at home through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. More than 370 health systems have applied for the waiver over the past four years. However, some have not yet launched hospital-at-home programs in part because of cost, staffing shortages and logistical problems, among other challenges.
DispatchHealth: DispatchHealth Achieves First-Ever ACHC In-Home Hospital Care Accreditation (11/21) - DispatchHealth is the first organization to receive the Accreditation Commission for Health Care’s (ACHC) new In-Home Hospital Care Accreditation for its Advanced Care service. DispatchHealth’s Advanced Care service brings hospital-alternative care into patients’ homes for conditions such as congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, among others.
McKnights Long-Term Care News: Midwest Virtual Care Training Center Aims to Modernize SNF Care Delivery (11/20) - Sanford Health’s new Virtual Care Center in Sioux Falls, SD, is aimed at upskilling and reskilling clinicians by taking a tech-forward approach to care delivery in skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, clinics and other buildings across the conglomerate’s ecosystem.
Modern Healthcare: SSM Health Expands Home-Based Care Programs with Hospital at Home (11/12) - SSM Health and health care technology company Inbound Health expanded an at-home healthcare partnership at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin to include hospital-level care at home.
Modern Healthcare: Ochsner’s Hospital-at-Home Pilot Lays Groundwork for Expansion (11/12) - Ochsner Health may expand its hospital-at-home program throughout the entire health system after successfully piloting a program in New Orleans. Ochsner Health, launched in March at Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans, prevented either initial hospitalizations or 15-day hospital readmissions for 92% of the patients referred to the program through its emergency department and observation unit.
Home Health Care News: Ochsner Health Answers Challenges With Its Acute-Care-at-Home Program (11/12) - In March 2024, Ochsner Health partnered with myLaurel to launch the Acute Care at Home program at Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans. The partnership has reportedly achieved remarkable early results, preventing initial admissions or 15-day readmissions for 92% of patients referred from the emergency department and observation units.
American Medical Association: Four Ways Ochsner is Improving Postpartum BP Metrics Virtually (11/11) - AMA’s study featured the Connected MOM program, which provides patients with Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs so they can regularly monitor their blood pressure. This can prevent complications from high blood pressure as well as cardiovascular conditions, thrombotic embolism and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The program achieved success across six key performance metrics.
Modern Healthcare: Why Big Retailers are Hitting Roadblocks in Senior Care (11/11) - Analysts, consultants and healthcare leaders say the quality of patients' relationships with their providers is the key factor in determining whether seniors seek care through retailers. They say retailers' success comes down to understanding the demographic they are trying to serve and seniors' distinct set of needs.
New York Times: For Older, Unmarried Couples, Caregiving Obligations Can Be Murky (11/10) - Caregiving responsibilities often go unaddressed in advanced planning for older unmarried partners. Without decisions having been made, conflicts can arise within families and partnerships of unmarried elderly people in need of care.
Modern Healthcare: How CVS’ Signify is Working with Oak Street to Grow In-Home Care (11/5) - Signify Health is tapping into resources from parent company CVS Health to grow the number of in-home services it can provide. Signify conducts in-home health evaluations for patients, and if needed, connects them to primary care or other follow-up services. It works with health plans to identify members who could benefit from an evaluation.
Becker’s Healthcare: Eight Health Systems Newly Approved for ‘Hospital at Home’ (11/4) - Eight new health systems were approved for CMS waivers to provide acute hospital care at home. The systems include: Stanford Health Care, Baptist Health (Louisville, KY), UF Health, UT Medical Center, Brown University Health, Strong Memorial Hospital, St. Luke’s Health System, SSM Health (St. Louis).
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