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Highmark Health, Contessa Expand Joint Venture Delivering Hospital-Level Care in the Home
Highmark Health has announced it is expanding its joint venture relationship with Contessa, a company that helps organizations provide hospital-level care in the home through its Home Recovery Care model.
Home Recovery Care Expands to two more Allegheny Health Network Hospitals in Western Pennsylvania
AHN Forbes and AHN Jefferson Hospitals join AHN Allegheny General Hospital in offering Home Recovery Care to patients recovering from acute conditions, including some cases of COVID-19, following an emergency-room visit.
Remote Devices Monitor Cardiac Patients at Home, But Not Everyone Can Afford Them
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the region and Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all non-emergency medical care to shut down in March, the impact on the interaction between patients, technology and health care was immediate.
Ingenuity in a Crisis
The 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies invest in emerging healthcare companies through the Blue Venture Fund, which seeks to spark innovation in healthcare…
Has the Time Finally Come for Hospital at Home?
The Commonwealth Fund, July 8, 2020 Concerns about possible surges of COVID-19 patients, combined with the spread of value-based payment and companies offering technology and…
Home Sweet Hospital
Tradeoffs Podcast, May 20, 2020 The coronavirus has left some hospitals empty and others overrun. One fix to both problems is to move care for…
Easing the COVID-19 Capacity Crunch
Progress Health, April 2020 Though many heard the term “social distancing” for the first time only recently, for months, government and medical officials across the country…
Newt’s World Episode 71: Health Care Breakthroughs in COVID-19 – Home Recovery
Newt’s World Podcast, Newt Gingrich, April 2020 At home recovery care is a new model of remote hospital care which is creating positive patient outcomes….
A Shock to the System
Nashville Business Journal, Joel Stinnett, April 2020 With nearly 2,000 of New York City’s more than 72,000 COVID-19 patients flooding the 3,300-bed Mount Sinai Health…
Some of the nation’s largest health systems want to care for patients in their homes. Here’s why.
Healthcare Dive, By Samantha Liss, November 2019 Some of the nation’s largest hospital systems are turning to a startup to help them deliver at-home hospital…
Highmark Health to deliver hospital care at home
Modern Healthcare, By Shelby Livingston, November 2019 When a patient turns up in the emergency department at one of Allegheny Health Network’s hospitals with uncomplicated…
Highmark Health Collaborates with Contessa to Enhance Home Based Acute Care Model for Highmark Health Plan Members
Pittsburgh, PA AND Nashville, Tenn. — (November 13, 2019) — Highmark Health, a leading national health and wellness organization, today announced that it is working…