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BCBS ProgressHealth, By Travis Messina, December 2019 Every day, in emergency departments and urgent care centers across the country, thousands of patients are assessed for acute illnesses such as asthma, congestive heart failure, pneumonia and urinary tract infections. If symptoms are severe enough, the patient is admitted to the hospital for what is often an expensive and uncomfortable inpatient stay. Even worse, these stays may lead to an increased risk for dangerous infections or complications. Today, however, a growing number of health systems are adopting a better way to deliver hospital care. The trend is called Home Recovery Care (HRC),…
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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 care to patients who otherwise would have been admitted. Ascension, CommonSpirit and Highmark Health are some of the organizations that have signed joint venture deals with Nashville-based Contessa over the past few months. Read the full article here.
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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 pneumonia, a bacterial skin infection or another lower-risk ailment, that patient may now get the choice to skip the hospital bed and go home to receive care. Read the full article here.
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Pittsburgh, PA AND Nashville, Tenn. — (November 13, 2019) — Highmark Health, a leading national health and wellness organization, today announced that it is working with Contessa to improve individuals’ health care experiences through a joint venture designed to enable consumers to receive hospital-quality care in the comfort and convenience of their homes. The joint venture, Home Recovery Care LLC, will provide all essential elements of inpatient care in the home through telemedicine, in-home providers, and robust care management oversight. This is made possible utilizing Contessa’s proprietary technology specifically designed to coordinate home-based hospital care. As part of this patient-centered,…
Read MoreHospital-at-Home Company Contessa Continues 2019 Partnership Boom, Announces Deal with Prisma Health
Home Health Care News By Bailey Bryant, October 8, 2019 Contessa Health has entered into an agreement with Greenville, South Carolina-based Prisma Health, marking its third hospital partnership this year and its fifth since the company was founded in 2015. And that won’t be the last deal of 2019 for the Nashville-based hospital-at-home company, according to CEO Travis Messina, who says Contessa has finalized and is set to announce another deal soon. The recent boom in Contessa’s deal activity comes as the health care industry and the players operating within it continue to recognize the value of moving care into…
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GREENVILLE, S.C., and NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Prisma Health, the largest not-for-profit health organization in South Carolina, will partner with Nashville-based Contessa on an innovative care model called Home Recovery Care that keeps patients out of the hospital by bringing key elements of inpatient care directly into patients’ own homes. Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital will be the first hospital in South Carolina to offer Home Recovery Care when it rolls out in early 2020. Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital and Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital will be the next ones to offer it. The long-term goal is to offer it…
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New England Journal of Medicine, Catalyst, By Narayana Murali, MD and Travis Messina, August 2019 Online Case Study: http://bit.ly/2MlZNHZ KEY TAKEAWAYS Establish clear processes and a well-defined team. These processes will yield superior outcomes and a lower cost of care. Establish an expansive list of targeted conditions for the program. The Home Recovery Care (HRC) model is beneficial for numerous patients; if the number of treatable conditions is limited, the program will likely exclude many patients who could greatly benefit from this model of care, limiting the clinical team’s opportunities to gain experience with this model. If a patient is…
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American Medical Assosication, By Andis Robeznieks, June 2019 Jody Clements was bowling with his kids—and rather poorly, he recalls—when he felt a sudden pain in his left arm and noticed it was “quite warm and quite swollen.” “I’ve had some medical training,” says Clements, the 47-year-old deputy chief of the Marshfield (Wisconsin) Fire and Rescue Department. “So, I’m like ‘Yeah, that’s an infection and it’s not going away.” Read the full article here.
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Home Recovery Care Services Help to Avoid Unnecessary Hospital Admissions and Improve Patient Outcomes Chicago, Ill. AND Nashville, Tenn. — May 20, 2019 — CommonSpirit Health today announced it is introducing a new hospital-level home care option. Home Recovery Care brings all the essential elements of hospital care to the comfort of the home, allowing many patients to avoid a hospital admission. Through a new partnership with Contessa, the leading operator of Home Recovery Care, this initiative represents CommonSpirit Health’s latest effort to leverage emerging technology to deliver convenient, consumer-centered health care to its patients. CommonSpirit Health and Contessa are…
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Harvard Business Review, By Albert Siu and Linda V. DeCherrie, May 2019 Since early pilot tests of the hospital-at-home model… Read the full article here.
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