Home Health Care News November 17, 2023
Joyce Famakinwa

As a home-based care provider, Nascentia Health was already well-versed in delivering care outside of brick-and-mortar settings. Armed with this experience, the company teamed up with a partner to offer hospital-level care in the home.

In 2022, Nascentia Health partnered with its local state hospital and formed a hospital-at-home program made possible by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver.

“The patients are still in a hospital inpatient stay,” Andrea Lazarek-LaQuay, chief clinical officer at Nascentia Health, said earlier this month during a presentation at the annual LeadingAge conference. “The hospital is getting the DRG, but [the patients] are able to use the bed at home, so it’s as if they were on...

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