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NAHC President Bill Dombi

Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) is one of the largest personal care services providers in the U.S., with growing footprints in both the hospice and home health spaces as well. Today, the home-based care provider delivers its services to about 44,000 consumers through 208 locations across 22 states. To check in with Addus and learn about its plans for 2021, Home Health Care News recently caught up with Chief Strategy Officer Darby Anderson, who also serves as vice chairman for the Partnership for Medicaid Home-Based Care (PMHC). In addition to the provider’s future, Anderson and HHCN discussed a new partnership with Homecare Homebase (HCHB) and emerging home-based care policies under the Biden administration. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: －How Addus and HCHB are innovating on the technology front －Why long-term care discussions shouldn’t revolve around SNFs versus in-home care －What Addus and PMHC are prioritizing for the remainder of 2021 －And more!

Darby Anderson, Chief Strategy Officer, Addus HomeCare Corporation

American Advantage Home Care is a small but rapidly growing home health provider located in one of Michigan’s most diverse cities. Founded more than a decade ago, the company was purchased by Cleamon Moorer, Jr., in 2019. Since taking over as president and CEO, Moorer has grown American Advantage Home Care’s patient census several times over while expanding its clinical capabilities. As the home health leader plans for the future, he hopes to leverage his organization's uniqueness and scale to compete with today’s home health giants. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: － Why Moorer left the world of academia for home health care － How American Advantage Home Care has tried to differentiate itself from industry peers － What impact the Biden administration’s HCBS plans will have on in-home care providers － And more!

Clem Moorer, Jr., President & CEO, American Advantage Home Care

Several post-acute care policy leaders have entered the national spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps none more than David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. In recent months, Grabowski has repeatedly addressed the need to rethink long-term care in the United States, from changing up the traditional nursing home model to investing more heavily in home-based care. Home Health Care News caught up with Grabowski for our latest episode of Disrupt to learn more. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: — Where the U.S. stands today, compared to other countries, when it comes to home- and community-based services (HCBS) spending — Why more investment in the home shouldn’t mean less in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities — What the future holds for SNF-at-home programs — And more!

David Grabowski, Professor of health care policy, Harvard Medical School

For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Contessa Health’s senior medical advisor, Mark Montoney, to chat about the booming hospital-at-home model in the United States. Nashville, Tennessee-based Contessa helps health systems provide hospital-level care in the home through its Home Recovery Care model. Montoney came on board as the company’s CMO not long after its founding in 2014 and has been there since, helping Contessa expand its platform during this critical time. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: -- How Contessa wins health system partnerships and facilitates home-based hospital care -- Why CMS’s hospital-at-home waiver will help advance home-based care in the U.S. -- What role home health and home care providers play in driving hospital-level care into the home -- And more!

Mark Montoney, Senior Medical Advisor, Contessa Health

Across the country, home health, hospice and home care workers continue to struggle when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine access. Nowhere is that challenge more evident than in Florida, industry insiders note. In our latest episode of Disrupt, Home Care Association of Florida (HCAF) Executive Director Bobby Lolley sits down with Home Health Care News to provide an on-the-ground update on vaccine progress. During the episode, Lolley touches on how in-home care workers are in a vaccine "blindspot," vaccine hesitancy among home care staff and more. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn more about: -- The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Florida and elsewhere -- The strategic importance of vaccinating home-based care professionals -- Unique challenges facing home health, hospice and home care workers across the board -- And more!

Bobby Lolley, Executive Director, Home Care Association of Florida

For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll to talk about emerging health care trends and his company’s plans for 2021. Originally founded in 1996 by major home health provider Gentiva, CareCentrix is a national at-home care organization that manages more than 26 million lives across over 8,000 provider locations. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: -- Why payer perceptions of home-based care are starting to change -- How CareCentrix plans on growing in the year ahead -- What consumers want from in-home care providers in 2021 -- And more!

John Driscoll, CEO of CareCentrix

Formerly CHI Health at Home, CommonSpirit Health at Home is a Milford, Ohio-based health care organization that provides home care, home infusion, home respiratory care, hospice and medical transportation services. As with most home health providers, COVID-19 has become the “new normal” for CommonSpirit. Throughout the public health emergency, the company has implemented a number of measures to address COVID-19 including — most notably — the expansion of its virtual monitoring capabilities. For this episode of Disrupt, HHCN caught up with CommonSpirit's Trisha Crissman, vice president and COO of the company's home care and hospice division, to hear firsthand about its on-the-ground experience with COVID-19. During the conversation, Crissman also touched on how the company is tackling flu season. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: -- The financial impact of COVID-19 -- Lessons from the public health emergency -- CommonSpirit’s 2021 goals -- And more!

Trisha Crissman, COO, CommonSpirit Health at Home's Home Care and Hospice Division

Trinity Health at Home currently ranks as one of the largest home health providers in the country. It’ll be even bigger next year, thanks to an ongoing consolidation strategy to combine its national and regional locations. Home health veteran Mark McPherson leads Trinity Health at Home as its president and CEO. Apart from the consolidation move, McPherson’s focus is on preventing “COVID fatigue” among his front-line health care workers while preparing for what’s likely to be a very challenging winter. Home Health Care News caught up with McPherson for our latest episode of Disrupt to learn more. Also joining HHCN and McPherson was Ruth Martynowicz, interim COO of Trinity Health at Home and Mercy Home Health. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: -- How Trinity Health at Home is dealing with COVID fatigue -- Why the provider is executing its organizational-wide consolidation strategy -- What the public health emergency looks like on the ground for Trinity -- And more!

Mark McPherson and Ruth Martynowicz of Trinity Health at Home

In 2008 -- amid the last recession -- Ryan Iwamoto and his co-founders started Los Angeles-based 24 Hour Home Care with $160,000 total of investment cash from family and friends. The company is now one of the largest privately owned home care companies in the U.S. with 19 locations spanning three states and over $115 million in projected revenue in 2020. The growth that 24 Hour Home Care has seen over the last 12 years has been completely organic. Iwamoto, who serves as the president, has seen his company make the Inc. 5000 list recognizing the fastest growing companies in the country for eight years straight. That success is due to the company’s ability to make innovative partnerships, its team and its ability to adapt on the fly -- like it did when COVID-19 arrived in California. The biggest, however, is its “secret sauce,” Iwamoto said. For this episode of Disrupt, HHCN caught up with Iwamoto to discuss that secret sauce, as well as non-medical home care, Medicare Advantage and the company’s 12-year journey to the top of the industry. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: — What company 24 Hour Home Care modeled itself after — How it adjusted when COVID-19 hit and how it plans to keep growing — How it wins partnerships with hospitals and MA plans — And more!

Ryan Iwamoto, President and Co-Founder, 24 Hour Home Care

Headquartered in Northern California, Medical Home Care Professionals is a small home health agency that has had to overcome big challenges over the past few years. In 2018, Medical Home Care Professionals had to operate through the historic Carr Fire. Right after that, it had to deliver care through a record-breaking blizzard. Now, it’s battling through the COVID-19 crisis — and another devastating wildfire. For this episode of Disrupt, HHCN caught up with Elaine Flores, the COO and administrator of Medical Home Care Professionals, to learn how her agency has survived what has sometimes felt like an endless wave of emergencies. During the conversation, Flores also touched on Medical Home Care Professionals' transition to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: — Keys for running a home health agency during times of crisis — Best practices for ensuring continuity of care — Medical Home Care Professionals' transition to PDGM — And more!

Elaine Flores, COO and administrator of Medical Home Care Professionals

In 2013, co-founder and CMO Dr. Clive Fields helped launch primary care provider VillageMD as a 13-physician practice. Seven years later, VillageMD has grown to a 2,500-physician practice -- one with an innovative care model partly shaped around the home. As one of its leaders, Fields has a vision of going “back to the future” by returning to home- and community-based care. He’ll have plenty of firepower to accomplish that vision moving forward, as Walgreens Boots Alliance recently announced plans to invest $1 billion in equity and convertible debt into VillageMD over the next three years, including a $250 million equity investment completed in July. For this episode of Disrupt, HHCN caught up with Fields to discuss everything there is to know about the future of home-based care, value-based payment models, primary care and more. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn: -- How Fields and his team grew VillageMD to where it is today -- Why home-based care is so important to the future of health care -- How VillageMD leverages home health and home care providers -- And more!

Dr. Clive Fields, co-founder and CMO of VillageMD

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