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 […]
While acknowledging that it is not a major revenue driver yet, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has publicly committed to the further expansion of its home-based care capabilities. Its most recent move in the area is a big one: a partnership with Atrium Health, one of the biggest health systems in the country. That news was […]
It’s been two years since Advocate Health Enterprises acquired Senior Helpers. Since then, the home care franchise has entered a new phase. While this wasn’t the first time Senior Helpers has been on the other end of an acquisition — the company has been sold three times in its history — it was the first […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave health systems and providers the ability to take hospital at home as a concept and run with it during the public health emergency (PHE). Those providers did so, and now they’re wondering what comes next. With regulatory uncertainty moving forward, the hospital-at-home momentum has been put […]
Joint ventures and collaborations between home-based care providers, tech companies and health systems continue to have operational upside. Some of the biggest names in home-based care have already proven that to be the case with their joint venture strategies over the past several months and years. Moving forward, however, it could be even more so […]
Moving Health Home — the new provider coalition formed in early March dedicated to advancing home-based care in the United States — has landed seven new members. The Washington, D.C.-based industry group announced Friday that Compassus, UPMC, U.S. Medical Management, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), Advocate Aurora Health, Contessa Health and Vituity […]
One of the largest home care organizations in the country has been acquired by one of the nation’s biggest health systems. Advocate Aurora Enterprises — the recently established subsidiary of Midwest-based Advocate Aurora Health, one of the 12 largest not-for-profit, integrated health systems in the U.S. — announced Thursday it has acquired Senior Helpers. The […]
One of the many changes brought on by the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is the growing importance of wound care. Several home health providers are now preparing to lean into the wound care opportunity. Nationally, there is a growing need for wound care, as about 8 million Medicare beneficiaries have wound-related conditions. Last year, the […]
For home health providers trying to survive the fundamental shift that is the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), leveraging resources as efficiently as possible will be especially important. For Advocate Aurora Health’s post-acute care division, that means improving outcomes around wound care through enhanced training and education. It’s a clinical pathway several industry experts and consultants […]
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