Category: Press Releases

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 Medical House Call Program, to offer its home-based primary care training and curriculum in major cities across the U.S.

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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 Home Centered Care Institute along with MedStar Health and seven other academic medicine institutions launched an initiative Tuesday to train home-care providers. They estimate about 1,000 providers currently offer home-based primary care, and their goal is to increase that number to 5,000 within five years.

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HCCI is excited to announce that CEO Tom Cornwell, MD has been named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2017. Dr. Cornwell was recognized for his work in bringing the needs of the critically ill to the national fore and collaborating with leaders on both sides of the aisle in Congress to find a solution. “This is such a wonderful honor,” he said. “I’m very grateful to those who have supported and continue to support our work. We know we can make a difference in the lives of so many.” Read the announcement from HCCI.