Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2023

(Nasdaq: WBA) has been building out its health care delivery arm – which includes home-based care capabilities – for some time now, just like its retailer competitors. Pairing primary care and home-based care capabilities is a way to drive value-based care moving forward. Under Walgreens’ U.S.

Primary Care 87

Primary Care Urgent Care Home Care Integration 87

Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Spanning more than 200 care sites across the state, the organization unifies hundreds of physicians, specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, behavioral health and employer health services. "On our website, the technology powers our urgent care directory and care discovery experience.

Urgent Care 232

Urgent Care Primary Care Integration Population Health 232

Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

Its health care services arm, CenterWell, includes pharmacy, home health care and primary care. CenterWell Home Health has more than 350 locations. Lifespark is a Minnesota-based company that offers home care, home health, hospice, primary care options and senior living.

Primary Care 93

Primary Care Integration Home Care Nursing 93

Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

Primary Care 109

Primary Care Doctors Home Care Nursing 109

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. Chronic disease management, mental health, even a lot of acute care.

Primary Care 85

Primary Care Prevention Home Care Doctors 85

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

hospital sector is facing major challenges on all fronts: staffing (especially nursing and more broadly, clinician burnout), supply chain, financial stressors, demographics, and cross-industry politics vis-à-vis pharma and health insurance. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

Hospitals 71

Hospitals Primary Care Home Care Patient Experience 71

Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

As in-home care providers look to use a more integrated approach to care, it’s critical to some that mental and behavioral health is part of the equation. Despite the added costs that come with offering those services, the need to care for patients with those ailments is undeniable. Lastly, we see the outcomes.

Primary Care 89

Primary Care Nursing Medicare Integration 89

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

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Patient Safety Nursing Hospitals Primary Care 71

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“In support of the launch of Walgreens Health, we continue to make strategic investments in pharmacy and health care solutions that can improve care coordination and health outcomes, while lowering overall costs,” Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer said in a press release. Brewer joined Walgreens from Starbucks in January.

Primary Care 99

Primary Care Nursing Hospitals Home Care 99

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Home-based care providers are no longer content delivering a standard set of care services. Instead, leaders at in-home care organizations are working strategically to enhance services, creating a more integrated care delivery model – a continuum of care.

Primary Care 106

Primary Care Home Care Nursing Integration 106

Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model has long been a passion of his. That’s PACE, and that’s what we do.

Nursing 85

Nursing Integration Primary Care Home Care 85

Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy. Previously, he was the president of Steward Health Care System. Unlike many other leaders, he’s in the position to prove it.

Primary Care 100

Primary Care Medicare Home Care Nursing 100

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Despite the hope that COVID-19’s effect on the world would wane in 2022, the year started with the highest case counts that home health and home care providers had seen, both among patients and staff. But as Home Health Care News’ top stories of the year suggest, COVID-19 did not define what went on in home-based care in 2022.

Home Care 90

Home Care Medicare Nursing Medicaid 90

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Rising costs for nurses and hospital staff along with growing labor shortages have resulted in several of the largest hospital companies, such as HCA Healthcare, lowering earnings estimates, which drove prices downward across the sub-sector in Q2 2022. Behavioural Health and Telemedicine: The Behavioural Health subsector was down 18.4%

Life Sciences 98

Life Sciences Telemedicine Healthcare Biotechnology 98

Health Advances

MARCH 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many disparities in the healthcare system, and inequitable access to care is viewed as a significant problem, with many populations disadvantaged by their social or economic status, geographic location, and environment. [2] In other professions, shifting tasks downward is a common practice.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Nursing Telemedicine Healthcare 52

Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of Florida’s largest not-for-profit public health systems — Lee Health — is beefing up its virtual- and at-home care capabilities. Founded in 1916, Lee Health operates four acute care hospitals, two specialty hospitals, three skilled nursing units, seven outpatient centers and three walk-in clinics.

Nursing 82

Nursing Telemedicine Hospitals Primary Care 82

Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

Advocate Aurora Health may have surprised some with its acquisition of the home care franchise Senior Helpers last year. But that’s just one of the steps the health system is taking to build out its home-based care capabilities, as well as a larger, full continuum overall. That’s always evolving for us.”. Keefe said.

Outpatient Care Centers 91

Outpatient Care Centers Home Care Integration Population Health 91

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For many, MA differentiation has meant embracing in-home care and actually acquiring, or investing in, provider partners. Lifespark, formerly branded as “Lifesprk,” is an innovative senior care provider with both in-home care and senior living operations. A value-based care history. Lifespark closed a $16.1

Medicare 104

Medicare Nursing Home Care Primary Care 104

Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

Help at Home Help adds chief human resources officer. The Chicago-based personal home care company Help at Home has named Lisa George as its new chief human resources officer. Help at Home has more than 190 locations across 12 states and employs nearly 50,000 caregivers. Empath Health beefs up legal team.

Home Care 91

Home Care Medicaid Patient Safety Primary Care 91

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In order to stay ahead of the needs of consumers and payers, post-acute care leaders — including those in home-based care — are looking to innovate how care and services are delivered to seniors. A major part of this is moving their organizations toward more integrated, cross-continuum care.

Rehabilitation 86

Rehabilitation Primary Care Population Health Home Care 86

Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Perhaps it was an idea ahead of its time, but Clinically Home stands out to Powder as an example of how the investments and innovative risks Advocate has made in the home have mostly proven out. Advocate Health Enterprises is one of the largest integrated health systems in the U.S. I think a lot of that ends up in the home.

Hospitals 82

Hospitals Urgent Care Nursing Medicare 82

Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

Advocate Aurora Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the U.S. Earlier this year, Advocate Aurora acquired MobileHelp , a home-focused provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) capabilities and personal emergency response systems. with 26 hospitals and 7,000 physicians.

Nursing 97

Nursing Hospitals Doctors Home Care 97

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2022

One of the offerings is what SCAN Health Plan has dubbed their “returning to home” benefit. It gives a member that’s been in the hospital or a skilled-nursing facility for at least a one-night stay access to between 40 to 60 hours of in-home caregiving annually.

Medicare 75

Medicare Home Care Hospitals Primary Care 75

Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

The program is the latest development for the rapidly growing in-home care provider, which specializes in treating higher-acuity patients. San Francisco-based Homeward, for example, announced a $20 million investment from General Catalyst to support its rural-focused primary and speciality care model in March.

Hospitals 94

Hospitals Medicare Urgent Care Nursing 94

Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

trillion spent on personal health care. [3] 5] PACE – The One-Stop-Shop Healthcare Service System Access to community-based, fully integrated care models is increasingly important as the U.S. by helping older adults remain at home. 14] Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Coverage Act of 1997 (H.R.1464)

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Medicare Accountability Nursing 52

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Jennifer Gentzlinger: Just a little background, Premier is our at-home care organization primarily based in the New York market. They’ve identified a cohort of Medicaid-Medicare duals, duly managed under the health plan with diabetes and hypertension as two of their primary comorbidities.

Home Care 84

Home Care Medicaid Primary Care Hospitals 84

Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice President and CEO Ken Albert was busy at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) annual Financial Management Conference last month. And an appreciation for the integral role of home health care in the health care continuum.

Hospitals 101

Hospitals Primary Care Integration Medicaid 101

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the pandemic, millions of people who felt symptoms of COVID-19 avoided seeking care due to cost and/or access challenges (of which cost is a key factor). The nurses will conduct a 13-question SDoH survey and assess risk factors that compromise the good management of patients’ MS conditions.

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Nursing Primary Care Integration Health Data 163

Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

Home Care 97

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 97

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Complementing in-person care,” as Christopher Lis coins it, translates to the curation and construction of omni-channel health care services. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

Healthcare 87

Healthcare Doctors Quality of Care Medical Services 87

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

integrating?CHWs CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification , and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. MIECHV Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. PCCM Primary Care Case Management. MHP Medicaid Health Plans.

Medicaid 122

Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 122

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

The bar chart tells us two kinds of people in the health/care ecosystem are much more trusted than other consumers’ touchpoints for the information: these are personal healthcare professionals (say, “my” doctor or nurse practitioner or pharmacist) and registered dietitians or nutritionists.

Accountability 71

Accountability Doctors Medicaid Nursing 71

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

Urgent Care 116

Urgent Care Doctors Healthcare Population Health 116

Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

consumers’ take on self-care has most to do with healthy eating and nutrition (for 1 in 2 people), getting regular medical checkups (for 42%), taking exercise, relaxing, using vitamins and supplements, and getting good sleep. In the U.S.,

Life Sciences 77

Life Sciences Nursing Hospitals Integration 77

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment.

Population Health 231

Population Health Primary Care Telemedicine Prevention 231

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Idaho reimburses for CHW services through its Medicaid managed care (Primary Care Case Management) program.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 52