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Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente have invested in Medically Home Group, a Boston-based technology company that allows patients to receive acute-level care and recovery services at home.
The partnership will begin with a reported $100 million combined investment in Medically Home Group, according to Forbes.
Both Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are currently using Medically Home s care-delivery model and are encouraging other health systems and care providers to adopt it to build capacity at a time when demand is growing for acute care at home.
The health systems said regulatory and legislative barriers are being addressed to allow patients across the U.S. to receive these services.
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“All of us, we are on the swim team,” Finley Thompson said. “And it’s hard having to wear masks in like the pool area or at school. I would just like to not wear a mask.”
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Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente announce strategic investment in Medically Home to expand access to serious or complex care at home
- The provider-led partnership with Medically Home will transform the delivery of acute-level care for patients with serious or complex illnesses.
- Acute-level care at home has shown to be safe, reduce readmissions, provide better patient outcomes, and increase patient satisfaction.
- Adventist Health, Cardinal Health and others join Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente to enable more patients to receive acute and restorative level care in the comfort of their homes, rather than in a traditional hospital setting.
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