Home Health & Hospice Week
Home Care Saves Money, Another Study Shows
Home health agencies have more ammunition showing how valuable their services are. A study published in the American Journal of Medicine last month compared costs for institutionalized patients discharged with and without home care. Patients discharged with home care saved more than $6,000 ($15,000 unadjusted) for the year after discharge, compared to those discharged home without home care services, says the abstract for the study conducted by researchers from Case Western Reserve University's med school. "As healthcare costs rise, home health care represents an opportunity to reduce preventable adverse events and costs following hospital discharge," the study urges. "Discharge with home health care was associated with significant reduction in healthcare utilization and decreased hazard of readmission and death." Analyses revealed that home health care most benefited patients discharged from the Digestive Disease, Heart & Vascular, Medicine, Neurological, and Urology & Kidney units, the study adds. See the abstract at www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(17)31202-0/abstract.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Home Care Saves Money, Another Study Shows
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