Home Health Care News October 27, 2019
Home health providers aren’t the only ones trying to push complex care further into the home.
As hospices seek new ways to engage patients further upstream, a rising number are diversifying their services to include home-based primary care, along with palliative care and other models. Evidence indicates that these primary care programs carry substantial benefits for patients and families — and can even have a significant positive impact on a hospice’s bottom line.
Broadly, home-based primary care programs have been shown trim cost, reduce unwanted high-acuity care at the end of life and enable patients to enter hospice earlier in the course of their terminal illness.
When it comes to length of stay in hospice, providers’ missions dovetail...
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