Tag: Hospital at home
Senators seek to expand hospital at home
February 14, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Carper, D-Del., have introduced the At Home Observation and Medical Evaluation (HOME) Services Act, a bill that would establish a pilot program to test expanding acute hospital care at home. The hospital-at-home program has been essential in helping hospitals free up beds and staff for patients in need of greater care, the senators point out, but only covers acute patients not observation status patients. “Addressing our health care challenges...
Heard at the Summit: Scaling hospital-at-home, understanding payers & weaponizing data
November 1, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The administrator of Atrium Health’s hospital-at-home program provided insight into its partnership with Best Buy Health and more at the HME News Business Summit last week in Charlotte.
Colleen Hole said the partnership makes the best use of the strengths of Atrium Health, a Charlotte-based health system serving patients at 40 hospitals and hundreds of care locations, and the health division of the big box retailer.
“We’re good at operations;...
Change agents
June 16, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
During an intro call in June, two speakers for this year’s HME News Business Summit said they preferred to have our prep call as close as possible to the event because the rate of change in health care right now is so fast. They said, there are things that will happen in the next few months that we can’t talk about now but that we’ll want to talk about at the event. So, we scheduled another call for early September.
When I look at the education program for this year’s Summit,...