Advanced Care at Home Agenda 2024
Download the Agenda- Day One | Thursday, May 16th, 2024
- Day Two | Friday, May 17th, 2024
- Co-Located Virtual-First Care West Summit
Registration Opens: Breakfast & Networking
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Keynote Fireside Chat with Open Q&A: Charting the Path to Establishing, Scaling and Expanding Your Program – Insights from the Trailblazers
The growth of healthcare at home has been fueled by its positive outcomes for patients. Whilst setting up and scaling high-acuity programs holds great promise, the process is not without its challenges. To kick off the summit, we’ll draw insights from pioneers who are navigating the complexities with success.
- What foundations and strategies did your organizations put in place to set up, scale and expand your program? How long did the process take?
- What lessons have you learned from the experience?
- What advice would you give to someone who is looking to set up or scale their own program?
- How do strategies to achieve scale across geographies differ from strategies to scale across different markets?
- What are the most viable next steps for providers to expand the breadth of their home-based care offerings?
Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health, Providence
Mandy McGowan, Director of Home-Based Programs, UW Health
Stephen Dorner, Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham
Regulation and Reimbursement
Keynote Panel with Open Q&A: Embracing the Unknown Fate of the Waiver – Building Resilience in Advanced Care at Home
The Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver has enabled the launch and growth of advanced care at home programs for many hospitals and health systems. The future of this waiver now hangs in the balance, casting a shadow of uncertainty over these programs. In this session, we will explore proactive strategies to prepare for the unexpected, secure the longevity of existing programs and ensure that this revolutionary approach to healthcare is not merely a passing trend but a lasting and impactful model for the future.
- What is the legacy of the AHCaH waiver, and in light of the uncertainty, is it the right time to begin building new programs and expanding existing ones?
- How can we build contingency plans in case the AHCaH waiver is not extended or is changed?
- What evidence and data do we need to provide to CMS to prove the value of advanced care at home?
- Is diagnosis-related group (DRG) the right reimbursement framework for advanced care at home?
- What will it take to reach the point of permanent legislation, and what would the perfect legislation look like? How could current legislation be broadened to include a greater scope of programs?
Vivian Reyes, National Physician Lead for Kaiser Permanente Care at Home, The Permanente Medical Group
Ursula Wright, Chief Clinical Excellence Officer, Mercy
Luke Neill, Medical Director Hospital at Home Program, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Morning Refreshments & Networking
Case Study with Open Q&A: Ensuring Compliance and Quality in Advanced Care at Home Programs
- Which evidence-based quality indicators can we use in the home setting, and how can we use these to improve patient outcomes?
- What should quality frameworks and standards look like for high-acuity care in the home, and how do we build them?
- How do quality standards differ for care in the home compared to the brick and mortar setting?
Michael Maniaci, Enterprise Physician Lead for the Advanced Care at Home Program, Mayo Clinic
Medically Home
Fireside Chat with Open Q&A: Securing Commercial Payer Engagement and Achieving Reimbursement – Strategies for Success
Bringing commercial payers on board will be crucial to the expansion of advanced care at home programs. This session delves into the success story of a fruitful partnership, offering insights and best practices for establishing effective collaborations with payers.
- How do you successfully measure value of advanced care at home, and how can we demonstrate this value to commercial payers?
- What strategies can be used to secure early payer support for new programs?
- What do successful partnerships between providers and commercial payers look like for reimbursement of high-acuity care at home?
- Without a widespread shift to value-based care models, can care at home reach its full potential?
Payam Parvinchiha, Interim Chief Medical Officer, SCAN
Dan Gebremedhin, Partner, Flare Capital Partners
Lunch
Catalysts for Scaling: From Service Provision to Mindset Shifts
Building an Effective Supply Chain Network to Allow Decentralized Care
Delivering the full suite of services to the home that you could have in a brick and mortar setting is an intimidating prospect. Join this session to gain insights from your peers on how to make this a reality and streamline the process.
- How can we evaluate the key services each patient needs?
- How can we build supply networks that allow effective, timely and reliable delivery of services to all patient populations?
Jessica Lovely, Home Recovery Care Manager, Prisma Health
Taking Programs to the Next Level – How to Scale Your Program alongside Your Partner
This session provides a platform to explore potential solutions to challenges faced by those who have engaged, or are thinking about engaging, in partnerships with third-party organizations to establish high-acuity care programs.
- What are the challenges you are facing whilst trying to establish or scale your program?
- How can we overcome these challenges within each organization?
Optimizing the Patient and Caregiver Experience with Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has great potential to improve the efficiency and experience of advanced care at home. Yet navigating the rapid innovation in this area can be challenging and frustrating. Join forces with your peers to explore which solutions are working, and how these can elevate your program’s workflow.
- How can we integrate and manage data to optimize the patient and caregiver experience?
- How can we harness analytics and algorithms to optimize our processes?
Nurturing your Home-Grown Program to New Heights – Scaling Your Program Internally
This session provides a platform to explore potential solutions to challenges faced by those who have established, or are thinking of establishing, high-acuity care programs internally.
- What are the challenges you are facing whilst trying to establish or scale your program?
- How can we overcome these challenges within each organization?
Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
Lightning Talk: Innovations in Acute Remote Patient Monitoring
Replicating hospital-grade patient vitals monitoring at home requires a new approach – one that goes beyond spot-check devices or patient reported symptoms. In this session, Vivalink will discuss its approach to ‘acute’ RPM for automated, continuous and real time patient monitoring post acute conditions and procedures.
Sam Liu, Vice President of Marketing, Vivalink
Panel Discussion with Open Q&A: Igniting a Cultural Reset – How can we Foster Support from Leadership, Physicians and Patients for High-Acuity Care at Home?
Our society’s conventional approach has long been to send individuals to hospitals when they fall ill. Advanced care at home challenges this age-old paradigm and thus can be met with resistance. This panel will explore how we can change the mindsets of various stakeholders, so that they think of care at home first rather than last.
- What evidence is needed to present a compelling case for high-acuity care at home to leadership, and how can we generate this evidence?
- What initiatives could raise awareness amongst the public that these care models are genuine alternatives to a hospital stay?
- How can we encourage patients to accept care at home?
- How can we overcome hesitancy amongst physicians to enroll patients in advanced care at home programs?
- How can we innovate physician training to include delivery of high-acuity care at home?
Seth Staton, Head of Clinical Programs and Innovation, Walgreens
Sohan Japa, Medical Director for Hospital at Home, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Ann Elizabeth Mohart, Vice President and Medical Director of Care Transitions, Mercy
Douglas Bretzing, Medical Director of Home Recovery Care, Baylor Scott & White Health
Kate Baars, Executive Director, Product Development, Virtual Care & Digital Health, Providence
Chair’s Closing Remarks
End of the Advanced Care at Home Summit Day 1
Registration, Breakfast & Networking
Advocacy Working Groups
In this interactive session, the audience will be randomly arranged into groups to engage in focused discussions on advocacy strategies their organizations can use, and that complement each other for a powerful campaign. Each group will explore actionable steps organizations of varying sizes can take to advocate for key issues in the industry, such as:
- The establishment of permanent reimbursement and the required legislation to enable delivery of high-acuity care at home
- Refinements to current policy, such as direct admission to care at home programs, in a new provider entity type that does not require brick and mortar hospitals
- Changes to the clinical model to allow Medicaid patients to be served
At the end of the session, a spokesperson for each group will feedback their ideas to the rest of the audience.
Kristina Ko, Vice President, Government Relations & Public Policy; Chief Government Affairs Officer, Corewell Health
Chair’s Opening Remarks
Increasing Program Reach and Enhancing Patient Experiences
Presentation with Open Q&A: Identifying The Next Wave of Patient Populations for At Home Care – To Treat or Not To Treat?
- Who comprises the ‘next wave’ of patients, and what are the obstacles in delivering care to them?
- Defining inclusion criteria: how to determine whether at-home care would be suitable, safe, and effective
- Elevating program offerings to serve higher acuity and higher complexity patients
Yonatan Keschner, Associate Director, MGB Springboard Studio
Fireside Chat with Open Q&A: The Patient Voice – Firsthand Experiences and Insights
The driving force behind advanced care at home has been patient satisfaction and the promise of achieving treatment outcomes that are equal to, if not better than, traditional healthcare settings. In this session, we will delve deeper, moving beyond quantitative metrics, and give the spotlight to patients themselves. Hear from their personal experiences about what’s truly working and where improvements can be made.
- What are advanced care at home programs doing right and how can they be improved?
- How can we gather qualitative feedback from patients and use this effectively?
- How can we engage patients in their care to promote better health outcomes?
- How can we put the patient at the center, and ensure that advanced care at home is truly patient-centric care?
Patients of Advanced Care at Home Programs
Gregory Beliles, Director, Advanced Care at Home, Mayo Clinic
Morning Refreshments & Networking
Presentation with Open Q&A: Bridging the Gap – How Can We Best Serve Rural Populations?
- Is technology a viable solution for these populations?
- What innovations are needed to scale high-acuity care at home into these populations?
- Can we integrate non-medical interventions to reduce social isolation and improve outcomes?
Soumya Rangarajan, Medical Director for Hospital at Home, Michigan Medicine
What is the Future of Advanced Care at Home?
Closing Panel Discussion with Open Q&A: Building a Sustainable Model of Care
Advanced care at home is just one facet of the home-based care continuum, encompassing home health, hospice care, palliative care at home, and more. To close the summit, this panel will look to the future and how we can secure advanced care at home, and the entire home-based care continuum, as a cornerstone of modern healthcare.
- Why should providers aim to build a continuum of home-based care, and how can providers take steps to achieve this? Can we reach a stage where emergency care is widely offered in the home?
- How can we ensure that we are not introducing fragmentation across our home-based care offerings and across our services networks?
- Supporting daily living can have a huge impact on diagnoses, how can we ensure custodial caregivers are valued and integrated in high-acuity care at home?
- Virtual care can increase the reach and efficiency of advanced care at home, but the value of in-person care cannot be overlooked. How can we balance in-person and virtual care?
- How can we establish long-term sustainability for high-acuity care in the home and ensure it is fully integrated into healthcare?
Moderated by: Lauren Dunning, Director, Future of Aging, Milken Institute
Kristin Bloom, Assistant Vice President, Hospital at Home Clinical Operations, Virtua Health
Hoy Garvin, Executive Director of On-Demand Care and Network Telehealth, Community Health Network
Jill FitzGerald, Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations, Confidant Health
Sandeep Sankineni, Regional Medical Director, Advanced Care at Home, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group
Chair’s Closing Remarks
End of the Advanced Care at Home Summit
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