Kaiser Permanente and an investment firm are teaming up to launch a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) venture. Specifically dubbed Habitat Health, Kaiser and Town Hall Ventures will begin building out the program in California in 2025 – in Sacramento and Los Angeles. “Our dedication to helping improve the health of our […]
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Oftentimes, talks between home health providers and their many referral partners are an exercise in education. For providers offering palliative care, that education usually starts at a 101-level. Part of that conversation with hospital and health system partners includes convincing case managers that patients will be better suited at home. “The longer a patient lays […]
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t uncommon for home health agencies and other post-acute care providers to beg hospitals to be a part of their post-acute networks. Three years later, that’s generally not the case. The referral patterns in home-based care have seen a radical shift, and agency leaders are still adjusting to those […]
Kaiser Permanente is well known as one of the largest health care organizations in the U.S. It is also becoming more well known in the home-based care community as a payer source that’s more friendly to work with. “Quality home-based services are absolutely vital to the continuum, and Kaiser Permanente is taking a proactive approach […]
Care transitioning remains one of the rockiest parts of the post-acute health care ecosystem. Home health providers are in the middle of those transitions, often juggling health system and health plan relationships while trying to care for the patient at the center of it all. The best case for a patient is an aligned health […]
Rising costs, the return of Medicare sequestration, labor shortages and higher patient acuity levels have all contributed to health systems struggling financially over the past 18 months. Since the start of the year, at least half a dozen hospitals have either closed or announced plans to close. To stay afloat, many others have opted to […]
Kaiser Permanente is acquiring Geisinger Health, the companies announced Wednesday. In tandem with the move is the development of a new organization. Together, the two are creating Risant Health, a new nonprofit group that will operate independently. “Through Risant Health, we will make our value-based care expertise, technology and services available to community-based health systems, […]
The journey of the hospital-at-home model in the U.S. is a compelling one. Much of it has transpired over the last few years, ever since the introduction of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, which allowed health systems to provide acute care in the home during the public health emergency (PHE). In May, the […]
Since the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) was enacted in 2020, there has seemingly been a new type of care brought to the home every six months or so. Those include skilled nursing facility services in the home (SNF at home), kidney care at home, infusion services at home and ancillary cancer care in the […]
The 65th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Dr. Stephen Parodi, an expert in hospital-at-home programs. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: – The data behind hospital-at-home models, both at Kaiser and elsewhere – How home health and […]
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