Payment ‘Patchwork’ Limiting Near-Term Scalability of Home-Based Palliative Care

Home-based palliative care is an untapped business opportunity for many home health and hospice providers in the U.S., but multiple factors continue to hinder near-term scalability. Data on the availability of home-based palliative care is limited, so it’s difficult to pinpoint just how large the market really is. Experts familiar with the space have previously […]

2022 Venture Capital Outlook: Investors Break Down the Home-Based Care Hot Spots

The COVID-19 emergency undoubtedly forced the health care sector to reimagine care delivery. In this environment, home-based care and senior care services began to receive more attention than ever from venture capitalists. In recent years, VC firms have poured over $2.5 billion into various senior care and home-based care startups, according to Crunchbase data. This […]

Top Home Care Trends for 2021

Despite continued staffing challenges, home care is on the rise. Several emerging trends will define that ascent in the year ahead. Some of those trends will revolve around home care’s role in new care delivery models designed to treat higher-acuity patients. Others will have to do with shifts in the home care market itself and […]

VC Insider Chris Booker: There’s Definitely More Capital Moving Toward Home-Based Care

The degree to which venture capitalists were interested in at-home care may have been overplayed at one point. But that’s becoming less and less the case. That’s according to Chris Booker, a partner at the Nashville, Tennessee-based venture capital firm Frist Cressey Ventures, which has itself frequently invested in the at-home care space. “From a […]

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bullish on Hospital at Home, Social Determinants of Health

Health care is migrating into the home — and the hospital of the future will have no address. That’s according to former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who highlighted the steady march of health care into residential settings and away from traditional institutions last week during a Health Care Council of Chicago investment event. […]