Home Health Care News October 19, 2023
DispatchHealth’s Advanced Care program — a home-based alternative to hospital care — was able to lower 30-day readmission rates, checking in at almost 50% below the national average.
That’s one of the key takeaways from a recent DispatchHealth study, which detailed the outcomes of the company’s Advanced Care program over the course of an 18-month period.
The study examined 1,000 patients from January 2021 to July 2023. The average age of the patients in the program was 76 years old.
“We wanted to make sure that we had accumulated enough evidence around efficacy to be credible,” Dr. Patrick Kneeland, vice president of medical affairs at DispatchHealth, told Home Health Care News. “We knew pretty early on, in our experience, that...
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