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BrightSpring President and CEO Jon Rousseau outlines his vision for home-based care in Modern Healthcare magazine following the company’s rapid expansion and acquisition of 107 home health and hospice locations, which more than doubled BrightSpring’s footprint and expanded its reach.
Rousseau also shares insights on the importance of scale in improving access to care, strengthening partnerships with payers, and enabling greater investment in technology, including artificial intelligence, which supports timely care coordination, enhances clinical decision-making, and increases operational efficiency to improve patient outcomes.
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The home health states are very complementary and additive to our footprint — from 14 states to about 30. The new locations are mostly spread across the Southeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions. In a lot of those new home health states, we already have a hospice presence, so our home health and hospice overlap will increase significantly.
This year we will do our best to really focus on the integration. We will try to use the larger footprint and platform to try and grow organically as much as we can. Down the road, we will be open to smaller, geographical tuck-ins.
Upwards of 40% of patients referred to home health don’t get it. That is a huge opportunity. And if you have the ability to better integrate services, I think that is viewed as pretty desirable because ultimately that is getting you better outcomes.
If you have house calls combined with in-home medication management, combined with the clinical hub that is monitoring and interacting with the patient — we think that is an optimized solution.
Scale can help advance data and analytics systems to drive care management for your patients. It can also help drive career ladders and investment in training.
Read the full article from Modern Healthcare here .