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Contessa Selected by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Test Medicare Dementia Care Model
Amedisys | August 21, 2024 Today, Contessa Health, a subsidiary of Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED), announced they have been selected by the Centers for Medicare…
Employee Spotlight: Tara Whiteside, Palliative Care VCU Team Lead Care Coordinator
Meet Tara, a Team Lead Care Coordinator in our Palliative Care Virtual Care Unit (VCU). Tara was nominated for a spotlight by her manager, Donna,…
Modern Healthcare: Calls for family caregiver support escalate as home care grows
Modern Healthcare | August 13, 2024 In addition to publishing a new white paper on caregiver burden and health equity in hospital-at-home care, we recently…
Improving Family Caregiver Burden and Health Equity With Hospital at Home
Delivering hospital care at home brings benefits to caregivers who face barriers when patients are admitted to a brick-and-mortar facility As we look towards a…
“I so appreciate everything they’ve given me back.”
Chronic illness can be especially challenging as we age, and for 89-year-old Robert, the end of 2023 seemed to be heading in the wrong direction….
Provider Spotlight: Dr. Sean Drake, Henry Ford Care at Home
When Dr. Sean Drake was first introduced to the Henry Ford Care at Home program, he was working in a hospital clinic that had the…
“It wasn’t like they were working for the hospital, it’s like they were part of the family.”
When the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) launched its Recovery Care at Home program to bring hospital-level care to patients’ homes, Travis was…
“I got the exact same thing that I was getting in the hospital.”
Just after Thanksgiving of last year, Laura found herself in the emergency room at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, struggling with the…
Employee Spotlight: Haley Allen, Team Lead Care Coordinator
Meet Haley, a Team Lead Care Coordinator with our Palliative Care at Home program based out of Tennessee. We asked Haley to share some details…
“That is half of your recovery, to have kind people around you.”
More than ever, health systems are faced with capacity constraints: staffing shortages, a growing population of older patients with medical needs, a lack of available…
Employee Spotlight: Holly Warren, Recovery Care Coordinator
Meet Holly, a Recovery Care Coordinator (RCC) in the Contessa Virtual Care Unit (VCU), which supports multiple partner health systems with virtual care for their…
AMA Newswire: Home-Recovery Program Leads to 44% Reduction in Readmission Rate
AMA Newswire | May 23, 2024 Marshfield Clinic Health System, in joint venture with Contessa, launched its Home Recovery Care program in 2016, making it…