Hospital at Home
Family caregivers are not just for pediatric and geriatric patients anymore. Family members are caring for patients of all ages and with a wide range of health care needs 鈥 from primary care to tertiary advanced care.
As we wind up 2022 we wanted to re-release two of our most popular episodes from the last year.
Join us to hear how Palomar Health鈥檚 transformational 鈥淎cute Hospital Care at Home Initiative鈥 is delivering great care to select patients in the environment they like best: their own homes.
The AHA urges Congress and the Biden Administration to extend the H@H program as currently authorized under the waiver to allow providers to continue to take steps to transform care delivery in a way that improves patient experience and outcomes while ensuring high patient safety. The Hospital鈥
Shortly after announcing its $8 billion purchase last week of home health care provider Signify Health, CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch proclaimed that the house call is undergoing a 鈥渞enaissance.鈥 With technology changes and the growing flexibility of physicians and nurses to care for aging patients鈥
Walgreens Boots Alliance has been busy expanding its health care reach into home health care. Walgreens completed its majority purchase of the home care technology platform CareCentrix for $330 million. The move extends the retailer鈥檚 reach across primary care, specialty pharmacy, post-acute care鈥
Memorial Hermann Health System recently began working with Contessa, a home recovery care service company, to deliver acute care, rehabilitation and palliative care to the health system鈥檚 patients.
The AHA voiced support for the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (H.R. 7053 /S. 3792), bipartisan legislation that would extend the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 acute hospital care at home waiver program two years beyond the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency
AHA expresses support the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (S. 3792).
The hospital at home model of care is emerging as an important strategy to improve value during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.