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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.
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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.
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Despite old criticisms about our healthcare system’s struggles with change, the COVID-19 pandemic has proven that, with its back against the wall, the American healthcare industry is very capable of adapting to urgent issues while maintaining high-quality patient care.
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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 and scale up promising models to benefit patients. As the coronavirus outbreak took hold, these companies stepped forward to offer tangible solutions to new problems brought about by the pandemic. Read the full article here.
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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 operational support, have prompted some health systems and health plans to take a second look at the hospital-at-home model. Click here to read the full article.
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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 certain conditions out of the hospital and into patients’ homes. It’s a decades-old idea that’s getting a lot of new looks. Click here to listen to the podcast.
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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 have been bracing for an influx of COVID-19 patients that could overwhelm healthcare systems. The severity and highly contagious nature of coronavirus patients needing admittance into hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) meant healthcare systems were looking for ways to continue to treat non-COVID patients—those with symptoms stemming from acute illnesses such as asthma, congestive heart failure and pneumonia—while freeing up critical bed space and supplies for the anticipated surge in the very sickest COVID-19…
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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. How can this new model of at home care help during the spread of COVID-19? Newt is joined by Travis Messina, Co-Founder and CEO of Contessa Home Recovery Care. Click here to listen to the podcast.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged all of us in more ways than we thought possible. Contessa is working with the nation’s most forward-thinking health systems and health plans to respond to the coronavirus. Learn how we are supporting hospitals dealing with a patient surge and what this means for the future of healthcare delivery.
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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 System since the outbreak began, maintaining the system’s capacity has become a priority for its seven hospitals — as well as for Nashville-based Contessa Health. Click here to read the full article. *Nashville Business Journal is a subscription publication
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