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Home Care Conference: A Discussion with WellSky

Home Health Care

The interview took place at the Home Care Conference in Chicago held on December 9, 2021. Kunu has worked in many different healthcare and home-based health roles. In 2010, he started Senior Solutions Home Care inspired with a motivation to help his own aging grandparents. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. We should expect COVID-19 to continue to accelerate this trend to “consumer-directed virtual care” and the emergence of the hospital-at-home care.

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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

Health Populi

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43.

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How Amedisys, SSM Achieve Success With Disease-Specific Care Models

Home Health Care

We determine which conditions to focus on for our disease-specific care programs through evaluation of high-volume conditions or those that were seeing patients re-hospitalized frequently for, Jennifer Conley, system director of home health at SSM Health at Home told Home Health Care News.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. This relates to another key data point that illustrates patients’ shift to a health consumer mindset: their willingness to seek care in lower-cost settings based on costs.

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Where Hospital-At-Home Programs Go Next

Home Health Care

Then there’s sort of the second piece that’s important, which is making sure that we have good measures for patient satisfaction and the patient experience. Can you give us a general update first on how hospital at home is going at Kaiser – what the census looks like and any other details?

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

There’s a lot to take care of.”. patients still hesitated to return to hospitals, emergency rooms, outpatient surgery centers and urgent care. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of late May 2020, U.S. This last chart details a question from the latest Kaufman Hall COVID-19 Consumer Survey conducted in late May 2020.

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