HealthLeaders Media September 9, 2022
A new report details the healthcare industry’s new emphasis on home health and its place in the health care continuum.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Patients have begun preferring home health services over other post-acute care options.
– Numerous hospital systems have begun offering home health as a service.
– While home health is a preferred care model, the sector struggles along with other post-acute providers to hire and retain talent.
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Acute Hospital Care At Home Program in 2020, the goal was to allow patients to receive intensive treatment in their homes to alleviate the strain hospitals were facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, two years later, numerous health systems...