Tag: Hospital at home
DispatchHealth, Medically Home merger ‘unlocks future’ for hospital at home
March 19, 2025HME News Staff
DENVER and BOSTON – DispatchHealth and Medically Home have entered into a definitive agreement to merge, creating what they say is the country’s most comprehensive provider of advanced medical care at home. With Medically Home as part of DispatchHealth, the companies will extend care into the homes of patients across 50 major metro areas in partnership with nearly 40 health systems, as well as most major health plans and value-based care entities. “This merger unlocks a future where...
Stakeholders push for longer extension for hospital at home
February 11, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Moving Health Home has spearheaded a letter signed by almost 100 stakeholders urging Congress to include a full five-year extension for the hospital at home waiver in the March government spending package. “Americans want home to be the center of their health,” the group stated. “Federal flexibilities, such as the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver allowed hospitals to do just that. Another extension of the waiver effectively builds the bridge from demonstration...
Medically Home names new CEO
August 5, 2024HME News Staff
BOSTON – Medically Home’s board of directors has named Graham Barnes, who has a background that includes acute hospital staffing and scheduling, care coordination, home health and contract lifecycle management segments, as president and CEO effective immediately. "We are pleased to appoint Graham Barnes to the role of president and CEO,” said Maneesh Goyal, chairman of the board for Medically Home and COO of the Mayo Clinic Platform at the Mayo Clinic. “His track...
Senators seek to expand hospital at home
February 14, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Carper, D-Del., have introduced the At Home Observation and Medical Evaluation (HOME) Services Act, a bill that would establish a pilot program to test expanding acute hospital care at home. The hospital-at-home program has been essential in helping hospitals free up beds and staff for patients in need of greater care, the senators point out, but only covers acute patients not observation status patients. “Addressing our health care challenges...
Heard at the Summit: Scaling hospital-at-home, understanding payers & weaponizing data
November 1, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The administrator of Atrium Health’s hospital-at-home program provided insight into its partnership with Best Buy Health and more at the HME News Business Summit last week in Charlotte.
Colleen Hole said the partnership makes the best use of the strengths of Atrium Health, a Charlotte-based health system serving patients at 40 hospitals and hundreds of care locations, and the health division of the big box retailer.
“We’re good at operations;...
Change agents
June 16, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
During an intro call in June, two speakers for this year’s HME News Business Summit said they preferred to have our prep call as close as possible to the event because the rate of change in health care right now is so fast. They said, there are things that will happen in the next few months that we can’t talk about now but that we’ll want to talk about at the event. So, we scheduled another call for early September.
When I look at the education program for this year’s Summit,...