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Empath Health, Trustbridge Leaders Are Setting Home Health Sights High After Integration

Home Health Care

The Clearwater, Florida-based Empath Health offers hospice, home health care, palliative care, grief services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), adult day services, primary care services and more. It is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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VCU Health Brings Hospital-At-Home Program To Central Virginia

Home Health Care

VCU Health at Home’s service lines includes home-based primary care, primary and specialty telehealth appointments, remote patient monitoring as well as skilled home health and hospice care. Richmond, Virginia-based VCU Health is an academic medical center in the Piedmont region.

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CareAcademy Hires 3 New Executives; Interim HealthCare CEO Joins RIHC Board

Home Health Care

“I’m honored to guide this organization in its commitment to elevating home health care as the patient-preferred care option,” Sheets said in a statement. “We RIHC is a nonprofit group of home care providers and organizations that invests in research and education regarding home health care.

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Bridges Health Partners Highmark BCBS Form Commercial Value-Based Care Agreement

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

High-quality palliative care can both improve quality of life and avoid unnecessary and often unwanted treatments for Medicaid enrollees with serious illness. States can support palliative care in a number of ways and across a range of settings (e.g., in hospitals, embedded within enhanced primary care, via home health).

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Roundups: 17 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments. devices paired with Samsung displays.

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How States Can Embed Palliative Care in Health Care Reform Initiatives

NASHP

State policymakers have a number of different opportunities to integrate palliative care into current health care initiatives. Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies. Ensure palliative care specialists are included in Medicaid MCO networks.