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News and Market Developments
MedScape: Hospital at Home: A Glimpse at Acute Care in 2050 (3/6) - By 2050, the concept of acute-level care being delivered to patients in their homes in lieu of traditional hospitalization could be commonplace. Even in 2025, the Hospital at Home (HaH) care model has existed for decades in countries such as Australia, Italy, Israel, and Canada. Jared Conley, MD, an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of the MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab, and co-chair of the Hospital at Home Tech Council predicts hat within the next 10-15 years, up to 30% of inpatient care could be delivered at home, but this requires a mindset shift.
Modern Healthcare: Home-Based Care is Ripe for Reinvention: Elara Caring CEO (2/28) - Elara Caring Chair and CEO Scott Powers shares to expand its client-base as growth in value-based care blurs the lines between clinical and non-clinical home care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set a goal of moving Medicare beneficiaries into value-based care arrangements by 2030. The initiative incentivizes providers to deliver better care at lower costs, which will give home-based care providers more flexibility in how they take care of patients.
Modern Healthcare: Mobile Hospital-at-Home Pilot to Deliver Care to Rural Patients (2/26) - The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health recently awarded funding to Boston’s Mass General Brigham, University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute and Kentwood, Michigan-based Homeward Health to develop programs that will extend hospital-level care to patients in remote communities using mobile platforms. Mobile medical units will deliver hospital-at-home care to patients in rural communities as part of a five-year pilot program aimed at expanding healthcare access in underserved areas.
McKnights Home Care: With In-Home Care, Older Adults Can Continue Aging in Place After Hospitalization (2/24) - Every year in the United States, nearly 17% of adults aged 65 and older are hospitalized. A key element within the care continuum is in-home personal care, a strategy that can manage a patient’s transition back into the home. To accomplish that, professional caregivers ensure that clients stick to their medication schedules and special diets, attend follow-up appointments with their physicians and complete everyday tasks such as meal preparation. Health systems routinely recommend this kind of assistance as a way to scale patient care after discharge without straining hospital budgets or staffing commitments.
Modern Healthcare: Hospitals May Buckle Under ‘Tsunami’ of Patients (2/25) - Health systems are treating sicker patients, straining already full emergency departments and inpatient units. Many health systems are struggling to keep up with the increasingly complex healthcare needs of an aging population, leading to overcrowded emergency rooms and delays in care. Providers are ramping up strategies to treat patients more efficiently and keep those who aren't as sick out of emergency departments. These strategies are critical as capacity wanes and providers face a potential decline in federal healthcare funding.
MedPage Today: Knock, Knock, the Doctor is Here to See You (2/24) - House calls are particularly beneficial for the geriatric population. They offer a lifeline amidst the complexities of aging, allowing health care providers to bring care directly to the patient's doorstep. This not only alleviates the burden of transportation but also reduces hospitalizations and ensures that patients can age with dignity in the comfort of their homes.
Business Wire: Village Caregiving Brings Affordable Access to Home Care to More Seniors, Families in Indiana (2/20) - Village Caregiving announced it is expanding access to affordable care for more seniors and families. The company provides support for daily activities such as light housekeeping, cleaning, grocery shopping, bathing, rides to and from appointments and companionship.
Health Affairs: Reflections On Caregiving Policy: Progress, Challenges, And Opportunities (2/19) - As Congress and the Administration develop their health care agendas in the coming months, the challenges of accessing and providing care for people needing assistance with activities of daily living are critical issues that must be addressed. More than 53 million Americans provide an estimated $600 billion of unpaid care annually to family members who are aging or have a disability, helping them remain in their own homes and communities. As we stand at a crossroads at the beginning of a new administration, it’s worth taking stock of where family caregiving policy has been and planning for what lies ahead.
McKnights Home Care: Caregiver Action Network, RubyWell Partner on Education for Family Caregivers (2/18) - Caregiver Action Network (CAN), a nonprofit organization that supports caregivers, has partnered with digital health care software firm RubyWell to help family caregivers get paid for the care they provide. Through their partnership, CAN and RubyWell will produce accessible articles and guides explaining how caregivers can cover the costs of caring, pay for housing, protect assets from Medicaid and more.
Business Wire: BioIntelliSense Partners with Hicuity Health to Offer Scalable End-to-End Continuous Patient Monitoring for U.S. Health Systems (2/17) - BioIntelliSense and Hicuity Health announced a strategic partnership to offer fully managed, end-to-end continuous patient monitoring to hospitals and health systems. This partnership addresses critical infrastructure and staffing challenges faced by hospitals and health systems, empowering them to deploy proven, scalable monitoring solutions for in-hospital care, hospital-at-home programs, post-hospital discharge and chronic remote care management.
KTVB7: Hospital Care at Home: St. Luke’s Launches Hospital at Home Program (2/17) - St. Luke’s is finding a way to care for patients outside of its hospital walls. Since the launch of its Hospital at Home program in November, St. Luke's has served over 100 patients. Patients are informed about the program and decide if they want to continue their care from home. If they decide to participate in the program, hospital workers determine what hospital equipment would be needed at the patient’s home. The program is beneficial to St. Luke’s emergency departments that are overfilled with patients.
McKnights Home Care: Humana, Monogram Health Grow In-Home Kidney Care Program (2/13) - Humana and Monogram Health, a value-based multispecialty provider of in-home care and benefit management services for patients living with kidney disease, have expanded their partnership to patients in Georgia and to those with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 3B.
Becker’s Health IT: AdventHealth’s Hospital at Home (2/13) - AdventHealth rolled out its acute hospital care at home in January from its AdventHealth Winter Park facility. The initiative has since treated a handful of patients, with a goal of reaching an average daily census of 20 to 30 in the next year. AdventHealth partnered with remote monitoring company Biofourmis on the technology. AdventHealth hopes to expand to more states, as well as diagnoses and levels of care (such as skilled nursing).
Modern Healthcare: How Medtech is Meeting the Demand for Hospital-at-Home Care (2/13) - Interest in providing acute-level care in the home is driven largely by the rising elderly population and the prevalence of chronic diseases and favorable reimbursement policies. Some of the largest health systems have leaned into providing hospital-level care at home. Other systems, meanwhile, are establishing smaller programs that don't involve acute-level care and are less costly to scale.
Modern Healthcare: SSM Health Eyes Skilled Nursing at Home Growth After Good Results (2/13) - SSM Health aims to expand home-based skilled nursing to other hospitals in its system after achieving good results from a program it launched last spring in Madison, Wisconsin. The St. Louis, Missouri-based health system launched the Recovery Care at Home program with technology company Inbound Health at St. Mary’s Hospital. The program provides nurse visits, therapy, durable medical equipment, infusion services, imaging and telehealth support to certain patients in their homes following a hospitalization.
National Alliance for Caregiving: Caregiving at the Crossroads: Critical Choices for 2025 (2/12) - National Alliance for Caregiving President and CEO Jason Resendez shared his thoughts on the future of caregiving policy, including possible Medicaid cuts and the implications of a lapse in the Older Americans Act. For millions of American families, caring for an aging parent, a child with disabilities, or a spouse with a serious illness is their daily reality, not an abstract policy debate.
Hea!thcare Innovation: ARPA-H Funds 12 Teams to Build Mobile Care Platform for Rural Settings (2/12) - The federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced the 12 teams selected by its Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical care (PARADIGM) program to receive awards. The program aims to create a multi-functional, rugged electric vehicle platform equipped with advanced medical devices to deliver hospital-level care in rural communities across the country.
Home Health Care News: At-Home Care Providers Focus On Unlocking Worker Potential, Learn From Failed Initiatives (2/11) - With ongoing caregiver staffing and retention challenges, at-home care organizations are looking to leverage the employees already on the payroll, maximizing their potential in order to benefit from the full range of their skills.
McKnights Home Care: Major Dementia Care Trial Revels Positive Impact of Dementia Programs on Family Caregivers (2/11) - The largest trial to date comparing different dementia care management programs found that family caregiver self-efficacy — a measurement of caregivers’ confidence in managing dementia-related challenges and accessing support — improved in both the health system and community-based care approaches, compared to usual care.
McKnights Home Care: Rutgers University Scholarship Aims to Increase Number of Certified Home Health Aides (2/11) - A partnership between the New Jersey Department of Human Services and the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University will provide scholarships to individuals interested in becoming certified home health aides (CHHAs), and specialized training and additional resources to supplement the skills of those currently in the field.
HomeCare: Most Seniors Say They Want to Age at Home (2/9) - Three-quarters of adults ages 50 or older want to stay in their current homes as they age and nearly as many want to remain in the communities where they live, according to new data in AARP’s 2024 Home and Community Preferences Survey.
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