MedStar joins seven institutions in new home-based care initiative

Baltimore Business Journal August 1, 2017 MedStar Health is joining seven partner institutions across the country to launch a new home-based primary care training program. The nonprofit Home Centered Care Institute works to ensure homebound patients have access to high-quality primary care in their homes nationwide. It's establishing eight new Centers of Excellence, including MedStar's

Eight academic centers join effort to address home care shortage

Modern Healthcare August 1, 2017 About 5% of the Medicare population — or 2 million beneficiaries — would benefit from home-based primary care. These patients are too sick to leave their home and have serious chronic conditions that require frequent visits from a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant. To help address the shortage, the