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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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The grant will also support efforts to address social determinants of health, according to Dr. Heidi Young, associate chief medical officer for Capital Caring and medical director of the Primary Care at Home program. million home-based primary care visits during 2016, up from less than 1 million in 1996, the study found.

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Hospices Leverage Partnerships to Scale Palliative Care Programs

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Limited pathways to reimbursement and workforce shortages are the largest hurdles for growth among community-based palliative care programs. Some providers have a learning curve around the complex process of working out payer contracts and sustainable business models for their community-based palliative care programs, according to Goldstein.

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Provider Partnerships Driving Palliative Care Growth

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“One is in our joint venture partners that are already in the high-acuity space, such as those offering hospital-at-home [care]. Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sean Morrison, the Ellen and Howard C.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I have spent about 11 years total with Optum and then worked with Aspire, but now I’m currently working with Contessa and Amedisys to help support palliative care at home programs.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

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What is age-friendly care, and why is it important now? One of the significant innovations that I’m very happy to bring forward on behalf of CHAP is Age-Friendly Care at Home. Hartford Foundation for bringing age-friendly care and the 4Ms Framework into the home and community-based health care settings—especially hospice.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

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Contessa has done high acuity care, relatively new to the palliative part of the business, but Amedisys has palliative that stretches over both the traditional hospice side of the business, as well as on the Contessa side. How do we create a win-win-win type of scenario within the VBID program or alternate payment models? It only makes sense.

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Palliative Care Panel: A Discussion with Axxess

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Tina Taylor: I’m Tina Taylor, vice president of palliative care at Compassus. I am responsible for our national palliative care programs across the nation. I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner.