Tag: Post-Acute Care

METAIRIE, La. – RestorixHealth is expanding its Post-Acute Clinical Services Team to offer customized support solutions, in addition to the product support and cost savings programs. The expansion will include many new jobs involving sales, service, marketing, technology, training and education, the company says. “Today is a historic day for RestorixHealth,” said Jeff Bowman, division president, Post-Acute. “These jobs will allow us to better serve our current customers and...

BOSTON – Nearly 2,500 post-acute providers, including HME providers, and 13,000 home- and community-based services organizations joined the CarePort network in 2021, signifying record growth within the platform’s post-acute, home and community client base, the company says.  CarePort, a care coordination software company powered by WellSky, also launched CarePort Community, a new referral and care coordination platform for post-acute, home- and community-based providers, that...

HARTFORD, Conn. – Walgreens Boots Alliance is acquiring a majority share of CareCentrix, investing $330 million for a 55% stake. The deal will boost Walgreens capabilities in post-acute and home care, in support of its launch of Walgreens Health, a customer-centric, technology-enabled care model powered by a nationally scaled, locally delivered health care platform. “COVID-19 has made it clear that providing care in the home and community is the future of not only post-acute care,...

MIRAMAR, Fla. – The latest Medicare Advantage company to be drawn to onehome’s model of both managing benefits and providing care to patients: Devoted Health. onehome partnered with Devoted Health in April to expand care to that plan’s members in Arizona, Ohio and San Antonio, Texas. “Managed care plans are our target audience and we understand what they are about,” said CEO Ramon Falero. “As far as the future, based on language from CMS about bundled...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Managed Health Care Associates, which owns the MED Group, has secured Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to deliver the keynote address at its 2021 MHA Business Summit. “We’re honored to host Dr. Gottlieb and excited to hear his update on the global COVID-19 pandemic, what we can expect in 2021 and what role the post-acute care pharmacy will play in helping eradicate COVID-19,” said Diane Koontz, MHA president....

Kno2 announced partnerships with Stratice Healthcare and DMEhub recently, allowing the HME providers who use those two platforms to access, effectively, any electronic health record system.  Here’s what Therasa Bell, co-founder, president and CTO of Kno2, had to say about how to “do interoperability right,” and how the company made a bet several years ago that information exchange needed to happen beyond the walls of hospitals and physician offices. HME News: How does...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - WellSky has partnered with three leading post-acute providers, USA Healthcare, Concierge Home Care and Healthy Living Network, to offer WellSky REACH. The initiative seeks to help post-acute and personal care providers collaborate with payers and risk-bearing health systems using predictive analytics. WellSky REACH (Risk-Enabled, Analytical, and Coordinated Healthcare) is a comprehensive suite of EHR-agnostic capabilities that leverages WellSky's payer expertise and advanced...

ST. LOUIS - Ascension has formed a new Post-Acute Services Division and named Daniel “Danny” Stricker as its president, according to McKnight's Senior Living. Stricker is COO of subsidiary Ascension Living. Effective July 1, he will provide strategic and operational leadership to the new division, which will include Ascension Living's post-acute services—independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, short-term rehab—as well as home health, hospice, palliative...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — LifeH2H has completed an acquisition and plans to launch a new product in 2019 to help other HME providers better position themselves to health systems.“We believe there's an incredible disconnect between the health system and post-acute care,” said Dewey Roof, president of LifeH2H. “What the (health system's) needs are and what they are looking to accomplish, versus what we have to do to be successful as HME providers.”The forthcoming LifeH2H Solutions...

A. When a failed transition occurs between acute and post-acute providers, the patient experiences diminished or problematic medication adherence, appointment and treatment compliance failures, and little to no transparency over information that could result in early preventative care measures. Combined, these issues create wide-scale medical crises and increased healthcare costs to healthcare providers, patients and insurers that are often preventable. Not to mention the significant stress and health...