The hospital-at-home movement continues to gain steam. Boston Medical Center (BMC) on Wednesday announced the launch of its new hospital-at-home program. The initiative is aimed at providing high-quality medical care to patients in the comfort of their own homes. “BMC Hospital at Home is anchored in BMC’s commitment to deliver transformative models of care that […]
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The largest hospital-at-home players are again pleading with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. The waiver – which is largely responsible for hospital at home’s considerable growth over the last three or so years – is set to expire on Dec. 31. In a letter to the Senate […]
Empirical evidence suggests that hospital-at-home care is safe and effective. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the model is still not nearly as widespread as it should be, however, with patients regularly asking their health care providers about the option. “Not a week goes by now where we don’t hear a story of a patient or a […]
About 15 years ago, Scott Powder — the president of Advocate Health Enterprises — was excited about a new idea. It was 2008 and the project was dubbed “Clinically Home”. The mission was to scale a hospital-at-home program pioneered by Johns Hopkins University. Advocate Aurora Health, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) and Raphael Rakowski – now […]
One of the most intriguing story lines in home-based care over the next year will be whether home health providers can successfully make themselves an integral part of hospital-at-home care in the U.S. When hospital at home first began to increase in prevalence in 2020 due to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) […]
Hospital-at-home care had a breakthrough moment in the U.S. after the onset of COVID-19. At the end of 2022, the $1.66 trillion omnibus spending bill made sure that the financial setup that helped get hospital-at-home programs off the the ground during the pandemic would not go away once the public health emergency ended. But 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 […]
Medically Home’s business is bringing services that are traditionally delivered at a hospital bedside into the home. So it was only a matter of time until the company brought the emergency department (ED) to patients in their home. On Tuesday, Medically Home announced its ED in Home program for medically complex patients. The ED in […]
Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH) has rolled out a hospital-at-home supply chain network, Velocare, and is teaming up with Medically Home to deliver its patients products and services support. The collaboration is a pilot program. Velocare is the culmination of the work that has gone into defining what Cardinal Health is going to offer the […]
When Medically Home announced that it had received another round of funding in January, the $110 million in the form of a strategic investment was led by a diverse group of companies. Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic were again partakers after they had already made significant investments into Medically Home in the past. But […]
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