Tag: Moving Health Home
Stakeholders push for longer extension for hospital at home
February 11, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Moving Health Home has spearheaded a letter signed by almost 100 stakeholders urging Congress to include a full five-year extension for the hospital at home waiver in the March government spending package. “Americans want home to be the center of their health,” the group stated. “Federal flexibilities, such as the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver allowed hospitals to do just that. Another extension of the waiver effectively builds the bridge from demonstration...
WellSky’s Tim Ashe on the home as the ‘rational approach’ to care
September 29, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – WellSky’s participation in Moving Health Home gives the company a seat at the table with big names like Amazon and Intermountain Healthcare as they work to change federal and state policy to make the home a “powerful” clinical site of care.
Here’s what Tim Ashe, WellSky’s chief clinical officer, had to say about why it’s important for stakeholders with various viewpoints to unite behind home care as part of the “total...
WellSky joins coalition to move care to home
August 23, 2023HME News Staff
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – WellSky has joined the Moving Health Home coalition, a group of stakeholders working to advance federal and state policy to enable the home to be a clinical site of care.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for care in the home has been steadily increasing and enabled through greater use of telehealth services, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement tools, and care coordination technology, the coalition says.
“The pandemic clearly...