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Advocate offloads senior home care business to private equity firm

Health Care Dive

The health system is selling Senior Helpers to Waud Capital Partners just three years after it acquired the home care group.

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Instacart taps DispatchHealth to expand its reach to home care providers

Fierce Healthcare

Grocery delivery company Instacart notched another partnership with a care provider as it extends its reach into healthcare. | The company will work with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to enable providers to prescribe food interventions, much like traditional medications, right to patients' homes.

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FDA spends $1.2M on VR-enabled hub to spur development of at-home care devices

Fierce Healthcare

The Food & Drug Administration’s device center launched an initiative to promote at-home medical device development with a focus on health equity in at-home care. Medical devices and other innovations that make acute and on-going at-home clinical management possible are receiving a boost in attention from FDA.

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How New York’s Home Care Minimum Wage Hike Fell Short

Home Health Care

New York home care advocates scored a major win when lawmakers passed a budget that included a $7.7 billion investment in a higher minimum wage for home care workers. New York is a state with a rapidly growing home care workforce. New York is a state with a rapidly growing home care workforce.

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Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement

Fierce Healthcare

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement dmuoio Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:08

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The Looming Home Care Disaster In New York State

Home Health Care

The budget proposal includes over $1 billion in cuts to the states’ home care programs. CDPAP is a state Medicaid program that allows people who need care, known as home care consumers, to hire the caregiver of their choice. This program is popular in the state because of the autonomy it gives home care consumers.

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Five Home Care Leaders To Watch, According To Other Home Care Leaders

Home Health Care

Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts.

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