New Data Shows Decline in Hospital Readmissions for Home Health Patients
The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation has worked with Avalere to release an updated Home Health Chartbook, providing a broad overview of home health patients, the home health workforce, organizational trends, and the economic contribution of home health agencies. The updated analysis of America’s home health population and industry highlights a number…
Our New Year’s Resolution: Protect America’s Seniors
With a new year comes a new opportunity to improve the integrity, quality, and efficiency of home health for our nation’s seniors. As Congress returns to work, we urge our nation’s lawmakers to continue protecting patients through support of the Securing Access Via Excellence (SAVE) Medicare Home Health Act. Introduced last year (as H.R….
Giving Thanks This Holiday Season
As families and friends gather around the table for Thanksgiving this year, it is important to remember why we are thankful. For many Americans, there is nothing more important than the choice to remain at home. Home is comfortable. Home is close to family. And home is where most people want to be, especially as they…
Home Health Honors Veterans by Providing The Care They Need in a Setting They Prefer
On Veterans Day, it is important that Americans everywhere pause and consider the great sacrifice of our nation’s servicemen and women. Even against great odds, they have defended our way of life with valor and steadfast devotion. Yet, veterans deserve our unbridled support for much more than a single day. And that begins with…
Looking Forward to Election Day: America’s Most Active Voting Block
With Election Day just a few hours away, policymakers and thought leaders must take note of America’s most active and politically aware voting block: senior citizens. Senior citizens play a clear, and absolutely critical role in future direction of America. And their ballots will directly impact the defining policy decisions of the next decade….
Save Home Health Rallies Show Support for the SAVE Medicare Home Health Act
We would like to thank Senator Mitch McConnell and Congressman David McKinley for their support of home healthcare and the SAVE Medicare Home Health Act. During the recent Save Home Health rallies in Kentucky and West Virginia, Senator McConnell and Congressman McKinley spoke out about the unprecedented 14% Medicare cuts to home healthcare and…
Future of Home Health Care Workshop
This week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council hosted the Future of Home Health Care Workshop, sponsored by the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (AHHQI), to discuss the current state of home health in the nation’s health care delivery system in order to improve the understanding of the role home…
Happy Citizenship Day
September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, commemorating the signing of the United States Constitution 227 years ago today. Being a citizen of the United States comes with many rights – and none is more important than our right to vote. Voting is an easy task for many Americans, but it can…
Help Bring the Vote Home for Our Seniors
Every election season, it is important for Americans to exercise their right vote. However, for some Americans, this can be a challenge. The 3.5 million seniors and individuals with disabilities served by the Medicare home health benefit are considered homebound, and therefore cannot travel to polling locations. This November, it is especially important…
Report: New Data Show Home-Based Care Saves Medicare Money
A study conducted by MedStar Washington Hospital Center found that home-based primary care incurred 17 percent lower overall Medicare costs over a course of two years. The report published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society found patients who received home-based care had: 10 percent fewer ER visits, 9 percent fewer…