Healthcare Innovation February 27, 2024
Vipul Bhatia, M.D., WellSpan’s associate chief medical officer of post-acute and continuing care, spoke about WellSpan at Home’s ambitious goals
Central Pennsylvania health system WellSpan Health has plans to grow hospital-level and post-acute care at home patient volume by 75 percent over the next three years. In a recent interview with Healthcare Innovation, Vipul Bhatia, M.D., WellSpan’s associate chief medical officer of post-acute and continuing care, spoke about these ambitious goals.
The eight-hospital system’s care-in-the-home ecosystem includes preventive care, acute care, post-acute care and end-of-life care. It has just launched a partnership with remote patient monitoring vendor Biofourmis to support the enterprise-wide expansion and management of its care-at-home program.
Bhatia described the continuum of home-based offerings. In the preventive...