Right at Home and Encompass Health Partnering for Value-Based Delivery Models
Right at Home, one of the largest home care organizations, and Encompass Health, one of the nation’s largest home health providers, have teamed up to jointly announce a new preferred provider relationship.
March 2, 2021 – Right at Home, one of the largest home care organizations, and Encompass Health, one of the nation’s largest home health providers, have teamed up to jointly announce a new preferred provider relationship. These companies have collaborated together in the past to best serve their clientele, but COVID-19 has highlighted the need to strengthen the partnership. This preferred provider relationship started in the 4th quarter of 2020 and is the first arrangement of its kind for home care.
The shared goal, to get ahead of adverse health events in order to keep members out of the hospital, which they are working towards by forming an alliance that addresses the social determinants of health. By collaborating to develop tools that help identify home health patients that benefit from home care, in addition to home care patients that might benefit from home health care, they are looking to improve overall patient outcomes.
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