Intermountain Healthcare expands hospital-at-home to COVID-19 patients
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 10, 2021
Intermountain Healthcare, a leader in hospital-at-home, is expanding its hospital-at-home program to patients with COVID-19. The expansion is part of the Utah-based hospital system’s effort to provide...
Higher number of senior deaths were outside of nursing homes: Kaiser Health News
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 09, 2021
A study by the Department of Health and Human Services found that roughly 60% of seniors who died from COVID-19 during an eight-month period lived in settings outside of nursing homes, according to a report...
LHC Group CEO: Congress will pass Choose Home by year’s end
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 06, 2021
The Choose Home Care Act will be part of the congressional reconciliation package by the end of the year.
NAHC calls on members to press Congress on Choose Home bill
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 03, 2021
The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) is issuing an urgent call to action, imploring members to lobby lawmakers on the recently introduced Choose Home legislation.
New York aims to lead PACE expansion with innovative pilot
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Diane Eastabrook
Aug 02, 2021
An innovative plan in New York State could expand the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to more people.
Two major home care associations aren’t heeding the call for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 27, 2021
The nation’s two leading home care associations aren’t backing a national push for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare and long-term care workers.
Kentucky Medicaid recipients get a $100 gift card with in-home vaccinations
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 27, 2021
A Kentucky managed care program is using $100 gift cards to entice Medicaid recipients into getting the COVID-19 vaccine. WellCare Kentucky is providing the in-home shots in an effort to stem the spread...
Pandemic has revealed ‘what’s possible’ in home care, OSU Wexner Medical Center leader says
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 26, 2021
When The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) opened in 1834, physicians traveled to patients’ homes via horse and buggy to make house calls.
A lack of data is sinking the care economy: PHI
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 19, 2021
Among the consequences of the pandemic are a gaping hole in data available on the direct care industry, according to Robert Espinoza, vice president of policy for the advocacy group PHI. It must be plugged,...
Blacks, Latinx skeptical about COVID-19 vaccine, study says
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Diane Eastabrook
Jul 16, 2021
Black and Latinx people have been more proactive than other races about seeking information about COVID-19, wearing masks and getting tested for the virus