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.

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Urgent Care Primary Care Integration Population Health 232

Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2023

Healthcare segment is the home-focused primary care provider VillageMD – which acquired Summit Health-CityMD for $8.9 billion in late 2022 – and the at-home care coordinator CareCentrix. delivering quality affordable care for all patient populations regardless of insurance or payer type. Under Walgreens’ U.S.

Primary Care 87

Primary Care Urgent Care Home Care Integration 87

Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2023

DispatchHealth has formed a new partnership with Included Health, a virtual-first health care company that helps connect providers and health plans to deliver at-home care. I really liked their vision, and really liked the care management-first and a more clinical approach to virtual care,” Prather said.

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Primary Care Urgent Care Home Care Nursing 91

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace new technologies, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is becoming established as a way to help chronic patients remain in their homes with health supervision to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and visits to the emergency department, urgent care facility, or physician’s office.

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Urgent Care Nursing Prevention Healthcare Providers 52

Home Health Care

APRIL 18, 2023

Help at Home names market leader for Georgia Help at Home has named Hermina Yarde as its new market leader in Georgia as the company plans to expand further in the Peach State. “I am excited to add Hermina’s unique expertise as the leader of our Georgia operation,” Help at Home COO Ray Smithberger said in a statement.

Home Care 81

Home Care Urgent Care Nursing Hospitals 81

Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2023

Together, the two will be officially dubbed Advocate Health with a network of 67 hospitals, 21,000 physicians and nearly 42,000 nurses. Advocate Health Enterprises was set up to invest in – and acquire – companies in the broader health care ecosystem. They should be in urgent care or in a retail clinic.

Hospitals 82

Hospitals Urgent Care Nursing Medicare 82

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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Home Care Primary Care Urgent Care Medicaid 90

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Originally launched as an in-home urgent care startup, Denver-based DispatchHealth delivers higher-acuity care – including offering hospital-level care – in the home. Her last role before joining Mission Healthcare was the president and chief clinical officer at UnityPoint at Home. “We

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Home Care Urgent Care Nursing Integration 90

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We remotely monitor them the whole way home and the entire time they’re on our service. They are connected to a 24/7 nurse station that is out of our command center.”. As a company, Resilient has a traditional home health arm, as well as a hospital-at-home model. “We get them set up with a tablet and our RPM device.

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Hospitals Healthcare Nursing Urgent Care 52

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Urgent Care Doctors Healthcare Population Health 116

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. In late 2020, during the pandemic, we had about 25 COVID patients,” Frances Lerma, the chief nursing officer at El Campo Memorial Hospital, told HHCN. That was all we could have.

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Hospitals Medicare Urgent Care Nursing 94

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Inside each HealthHubs is a care counselor who can help coordinate services for seniors, including in-home care if it’s needed. That’s what those care counselors are about,” Sharp said. Do that maybe 10 hours a month, giving members the support they need so they can stay at home, stay safe.”.

Medicare 101

Medicare Urgent Care Nursing Prevention 101

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Other features in the Lively Flip are: 24 x 7 access to the GreatCall Urgent Response call center. Access to doctors and nurses through Urgent Care on the phone. The GreatCall link app for family caregivers. A reading magnifier with an LED flashlight. Brain Games by Posit Science, among other apps and tools.

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Urgent Care Doctors Nursing Healthcare 140

Home Health Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

This article is sponsored by Home Care for the 21st Century. This article is based on a Home Health Care News virtual discussion with John Dapello, CEO of Home Care for the 21st Century, and Lori McCauley, Vice President of Franchise Development at Home Care for the 21st Century.

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Home Care Nursing Urgent Care Hospitals 85

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. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

Home Care 97

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 97

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hannah Patterson: I’m the vice president of our workforce management solutions at Netsmart, a Healthcare IT vendor that provides services and solutions technologies for home care, post-acute providers and our human services clients. It has great reporting so we can see how many urgent and non-urgent care requests have come in.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For instance, connecting a partner who delivers in-home labs, along with a telehealth provider and a brick-and-mortar primary care physician, to enable data sharing and collaboration with the patient's health, the appropriate level of care and best outcomes in mind as the objectives. This is really the future of care.

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Population Health Primary Care Telemedicine Prevention 231

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

NYSE: HUM), it’s transforming into one of the biggest home-based care companies around. But then again, the company that originally launched in the 60s as a nursing home provider is no stranger to transformation. Sheff: The home solutions segment is one of the operating divisions within Humana. For Humana Inc.

Primary Care 78

Primary Care Urgent Care Nursing Integration 78

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) pairs registered nurses with low-income first-time mothers during pregnancy and continues with regular home visits until the child’s second birthday. State Medicaid authorities can use the Healthy Steps Return on Investment tools to examine the program’s impact on the state budget and outcomes.

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Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, according to our internal data, nearly 12% of patients who call our nurse line with a pre-intent of visiting an urgent care facility were appropriately redirected to visit an emergency room instead. Health Dialog has a diverse patient base calling our 24/7 nurse line. Who typically calls a nurse line and why?

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Nursing Urgent Care Medicaid Medicare 40