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SNF at Home is an important complement to facility-based care! Join us in advocating on Capitol Hill to make it permissible and covered in traditional Medicare. UMass Chan Medical School, Mass General Brigham

McKnight's Home Care: House passes continuing resolution that would temporarily extend hospital-at-home, telehealth Liza Berger Moving Health Home, a lobbying group for hospital-at-home and other types of acute care in the home, is in favor of the legislation that would continue the hospital-at-home waiver until the end of September. “We’re always hopeful for a longer extension given that short-term extensions keep many potential participants on the sidelines,” Krista Drobac, a partner at healthcare consulting firm Sirona Strategies and founder of Moving Health Home, told?McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse. “However, given these times, we will take what we can get. Given the widespread support for hospital-at-home in Congress, we are hopeful that whatever version of the continuing resolution that passes will include an extension.” https://lnkd.in/gPmMd9Ww

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) "I frequently hear from Nebraska hospitals about their frustrations with delays to discharging patients ready to leave the hospital because of their inability to gain access to appropriate post-acute care site. Some of those delays are caused by prior authorizations. But in many cases, there aren’t any available SNF beds. "One way to address this lack of access is to look at new, #innovative ways to expand the universe of hospital discharge options. "I’m currently working at a new bill, which would create a SNF at Home option, modeled after the success of the Hospital at Home demonstration. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen how much new technologies have expanded the ability of patients to receive care in their homes instead of traditional facilities."

Moving Health Home submitted a statement for the record to the U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means Health?Subcommittee Hearing?on After the Hospital: Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care. Hospital overcrowding, patient and #caregiver choice, and the need for increased capacity for post-acute care make post-acute recovery #athome an urgent need. Tens of thousands of patients are unnecessarily stuck in the hospital because there are not enough beds in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) or home health providers in their area, thereby creating back-ups among patients in the ER waiting for admission. The creation of a post-acute recovery at home program would allow patients to access these services from the home using a mix of #skilledcare, #personalcare, and #telehealth services. Post-acute recovery at home provides opportunities for payers, health systems, and providers to lower costs, facility-associated infections, promote patient compliance, free up capacity in facilities, and address practitioner burnout. In our response, we outline a proposal that will expand Medicare’s post-acute options by creating a five-year waiver of certain skilled nursing facility (SNF) requirements to allow for a demonstration of SNF at Home. https://lnkd.in/gaJwnkAa

CBS News: Why Hospitals Are Increasingly Treating Patients at Home There are more than 380 approved hospital-at-home programs in 39 states, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In overcrowded hospitals, the programs can help free up needed beds -- a persistent issue in facilities such as Mass General Brigham. Mark Strassmann reports. https://lnkd.in/gavGfsYF

?You don't want to miss this great webinar? Caregivers play an irreplaceable role in a patient's treatment process and ability to recover in the home. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently established payment to reimburse training for #caregivers. With the ability to reimburse training for caregivers on direct care services and supports, reduced readmissions after discharge and care transition are possible. Continuing to hear from caregivers on how to best support them will enable #care in the #home as caregivers will be prepared to properly assist patients.

U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means Health Subcommittee is holding a hearing on After the Hospital: Ensuring Access to Quality Post-Acute Care at 2 PM ET on March 11, 2025. Moving Health Home looks forward to the discussion around the opportunities to improve access to such care for #Medicare beneficiaries. Hospital overcrowding, patient and caregiver choice, and increased capacity for post-acute care make post-acute recovery #athome an urgent need. MHH is working on a waiver which would expand post-acute care options: https://lnkd.in/gmWqpSQF https://lnkd.in/g-4jvja5

You Won't Want to Miss This Event on #Caregivers! Trualta Jonathan Davis

Modern Healthcare: Mobile hospital-at-home pilot to deliver care to rural patients Diane Eastabrook The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health recently awarded an undisclosed amount of funding to Boston’s?Mass General Brigham,?University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute?and Kentwood, Michigan-based?Homeward Health?to develop programs that will extend hospital-level care to patients in remote communities using mobile platforms. If successful, the initiative could help fill a void in rural America where an estimated 700?hospitals are expected to close?over the next several years. It could also help providers in more urban settings extend home-based acute care to patients who don't live close enough to access it. https://lnkd.in/g7JB_xe2

Modern Healthcare: Hospitals may buckle under 'tsunami' of patients Alex Kacik Health systems are treating sicker patients, straining already full emergency departments and inpatient units. Many health systems are struggling to keep up with the?increasingly complex healthcare needs?of an?aging population, leading to overcrowded emergency rooms and delays in care. Providers are ramping up strategies to treat patients more efficiently and keep those who aren't as sick out of emergency departments. Hospitals cannot solve capacity issues on their own Organizations that own post-acute facilities or have strong relationships with post-acute providers tend to have lower lengths of stay and better operating margins than their peers without those assets or partnerships. https://lnkd.in/g7QW6AxC