Home Care Association of America: Caring for America's Seniors: The Value of Home Care Caring for America's Seniors: The Value of Home Care provides information on the growing and critical role of professional home care in the United States in response to the millions of aging Americans who will need care. The report shines a [...]
This case study dives into how MultiCare: Came to the conclusion they needed an innovative approach to break the readmission cycle Integrated the new service within the health system to provide high acuity medical care in the home Treated patients at an appropriate level of care to realize $1,509 in cost savings per patient Provided [...]
BY TOM DASCHLE & BILL FRIST June 3, 2020 Former Senators and Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist issued an op-ed noting the importance of home-based care and technologies to enable home-based care. The former Sens. call for policymakers to think, “beyond essential medical services and consider the non-medical drivers of health that are often [...]
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Home-Based Primary Care Interventions The comparative effectiveness report showed that hospital-at-home patients had an 8.6 percent lower 30-day readmission rate compared to 15.6 percent readmission rate for the control group of acute-care hospital patients. Additionally, hospital-at-home patients had an 5.8 percent 30-day emergency department re-visit rate versus an [...]