Home Health Care News October 14, 2021
Some of the most premier health care organizations in the U.S. are coming together to form the “Advanced Care at Home Coalition.” The newly formed entity will vie for legislation that will allow more patients to receive hospital-level care in their homes moving forward.
Many of the provisions that have allowed health systems and home-based care players to treat patients in their homes during the COVID-19 crisis are tied to the public health emergency (PHE). The worry is that when the PHE expires in December, progress will be lost.
The founding members of the coalition were Medically Home, the Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, the latter two of which invested $100 million in Medically Home – a hospital-at-home enabler –...