How Can Hospitals Turn the Home Into a Healthcare Hub?
A panel discussion at last week’s CES 2024 event in Las Vegas brought to light the challenges facing healthcare organizations who want to use the home for care delivery. For while the technology is in place to deliver care, healthcare executives have to rethink how they collect and use data from the home and interact with consumers.
With Community Paramedicine, House Calls are Making a Meaningful Comeback
One of the biggest care gaps occurs when the patient leaves the hospital. The care team can send along instructions for care management, send texts or emails or make phone calls, even schedule follow-up care, but there’s no guarantee those directions will be followed.
Making In-Home Care Worker Safety a Priority
Private duty and home health administrators must tackle many industry challenges as leaders, such as worker shortages and reimbursement issues. Another of those challenges is workplace safety and how to keep in-home care workers safe from abuse and bodily harm when taking care of clients.
Mass General Brigham Expands Its Hospital at Home Program
Health system officials have announced that Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Salem Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital will join the Home Hospital program, which was launched by both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2016 and consolidated in 2020 when the two hospitals merged.
Post-Acute Care Shortage: WellSky Report Looks at the Impact on Hospitals and Patients
Hospitals are finding it harder to place patients in home care and nursing homes. Referrals to skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home health agencies (HHA) have increased 10% and 11%, respectively. At the same time, rejection rates to HHAs have skyrocketed 40%.
Q&A: APIC CEO on Need for Infection Prevention Efforts in Home Health—Part 2
HealthLeaders continues the conversation with Devin Jopp, CEO of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) about the need for infection control oversight in the home health setting. As more individuals prefer to receive care in their home and older adults opt to age in place, home healthcare has seen substantial growth in the aftermath of the pandemic. Here is part two of HealthLeaders’ interview with Jopp.
Treatment at Home Improves Patient and Staff Satisfaction
The results have shown an increase in patient safety as well as improved, more sustainable staff experiences during a time of staffing shortages and retention challenges across the industry.
Q&A: APIC CEO on Need for Infection Prevention Efforts in Home Health—Part 1
As more individuals prefer to receive care in their home and older adults opt to age in place, home healthcare has seen substantial growth in the aftermath of the pandemic. HealthLeaders spoke with Jopp about infection prevention and home health.
New Technologies, Ideas Push the Hospital at Home Concept Forward
Hundreds of hospitals across the country have launched an acute care at home program, focused on treating patients at home versus in a hospital bed. Many of those hospitals are following the Acute Hospital Care at Home model developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which sets strict guidelines for in-person care to qualify for Medicare reimbursement.
Care-at-Home Technology Looks to Decrease Risks of Maternal Mortality
Current Health is leveraging its care-at-home platform to quickly identify signs of potentially fatal conditions related to pregnancy, such as severe-range hypertension and preeclampsia.