MINNEAPOLIS, FEBRUARY 21, 2024 - Inbound Health, a nationwide provider of advanced care-at-home solutions for health systems and health plans, announces the release of Inbound InHome™, a proprietary patient management and analytics platform designed specifically for in-home advanced care. Inbound InHome was designed by Inbound Health clinicians and healthcare operators to deliver a technology-enabled, facility-level care experience in the comfort of the patient’s home. “When Inbound Health first started seeing patients in the home in May of 2020, we were leveraging a traditional biometric monitoring platform as our technology backbone,” said Dave Kerwar, CEO of Inbound Health. “While that allowed health system partners to remotely track patient vital signs, it lacked some major components required to conduct seamless, efficient, and highly coordinated care at scale.”

October 4, 2023

There’s been an enormous amount of buzz about hospital-at-home programs (and their companions, skilled nursing facility-at-home, or SNF-at-home, programs), which arose in 2020 when, in response to COVID-19 hospital overcrowding, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) permitted hospitals to be paid for in-home care. When the public health emergency ended this spring, CMS extended the waiver through the end of 2024, allowing the practice to continue.

HomeCare talked with Julia Crist, chief operating officer at Inbound Health, which coordinates hospital-at-home care on behalf of hospitals, health systems and provider groups, employing the clinicians and providing equipment, management, monitoring and more. She helped map out potential roles for in-home care providers—home health agencies, personal care companies and home medical equipment providers—in the expanding world of acute care at home

October 3, 2023

Closely-held Inbound Health is enabling its health system partners to provide hospital and skilled nursing facility (SNF)-level care to patients in the comfort of their own home.

“Health systems are extremely complex, so trying to build new business units or care models to cost-effectively increase capacity is very hard to do, unless you address the pain points of the existing infrastructure while connecting to the health system’s operations,” Dave Zimmerman, Inbound’s SVP, Growth, says in an interview with BioTuesdays.

Leading at-home care enablement platform continues to scale home-based care models while alleviating operating and financial pressures for health system partners

Minneapolis, MN – September 20, 2023 – Inbound Health, a company that enables health systems to offer acute and post-acute care in the home, announced today the successful close of a $30 million Series B funding round. This investment is led by HealthQuest Capital with participation from existing investors Flare Capital Partners and McKesson Ventures.

Aug 25, 2023

For the HaH market segment, supply chain must focus on the fundamentals, insists Julia Crist, COO, Inbound Health.

“Supply chain operations for hospital-at-home services face a key challenge – ensuring timely delivery of products and services,” she said. “Hospital-at-home patients require urgent attention, such as in-home imaging or infusion, and delays can lead to readmission or adverse events. Shorter service levels and broad geographic coverage require agile staffing. However, staffing shortages and cost constraints hinder the supply chain industry's ability to adapt to real-time operations.” 

Aug 15th, 2023

Overcrowded emergency departments, a lack of hospital beds and skyrocketing healthcare costs are among the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system. The ability to provide hospital-level care to select patients at home through the use of new technologies and in-home nursing visits provided temporary relief during the pandemic, and may soon become a permanent care model in the U.S. We spoke with Dave Kerwar, co-founder of Inbound Health, to learn more about which patients are benefiting from hospital at home care, where we stand with government and private payer reimbursement, and opportunities for MedTech providers to enhance this model of care as CMS and commercial payers consider long-term adoption…

July 3rd, 2023

In October 2022, Minneapolis-based Allina Health and investment firm Flare Capital Partners launched a company called Inbound Health that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs. In a recent interview, Julia Crist, the company’s chief operating officer, gave a glimpse into how the spin-out from Allina came together…

June 2nd, 2023

The hospital-at-home market is expected to grow 50% from $200 billion to nearly $300 billion by 2028, and is a magnet for companies trying to get a foothold in the space…

June 2nd, 2023

Hospital-at-home firm Inbound Health disclosed this week that it has expanded its skilled nursing-at-home program to include post-surgical care for general surgery, encompassing orthopedics, bariatrics and hernia.

Offering more SNF-at-home services generates profits and savings throughout the healthcare system, CEO Dave Kerwar told McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse…

June 2nd, 2023

Inbound Health — an enablement platform that helps health systems and health plans develop hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs — is expanding to include post-surgical care for general surgery.

The company’s home hospital care program will now include orthopedics, bariatrics and hernia as part of this expansion. One of the main goals is to help solve a major pain point for hospitals, Inbound Health CEO Dave Kerwar told Home Health Care News…

June 1st, 2023

In October, at-home health platform Inbound Health spun out of its parent company, Minneapolis-based not-for-profit health care system Allina Health. Originally designed to take care of COVID patients, Inbound had already diversified out to new patient populations, including those with sepsis, heart failure, pneumonia, asthma, COPD, and renal failure.

Now, the company is entering a new space: general surgery, including orthopedics, bariatrics, and hernia, it announced on Wednesday…

May 31st, 2023

The hospital-to-home care movement is rising, and Inbound Health wants to be at the forefront of enabling health systems and health plans nationwide to bring hospital-level care into the home, now adding general surgery to its offerings…

May 18th, 2023

Hospital-at-home is here to stay, according to Dave Kerwar, chief executive officer of Inbound Health, a new company that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs. While the pandemic helped to boost interest in hospital-at-home through the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, he firmly believes a permanent payment model for the program will be in the works by 2024 — when the waiver is set to expire.

The absence of a permanent model is keeping about half of healthcare systems on the sidelines, he told McKnight’s Home Care in a Newsmakers podcast. Other impediments to the success of hospital-at-home are the workforce crisis and a lack of published data about experience and outcomes…

April 13th, 2023

Healthcare Finance News: What acute care health waivers issued by CMS during the public health emergency will continue after the PHE expires on May 11?

Julia Crist: At the end of 2022, CMS extended the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver until December 31, 2024. This waiver allows hospitals to provide hospital at home services and bill CMS for the equivalent of an inpatient hospital stay. Hospitals may either avoid an inpatient admission altogether by admitting a patient to home hospital care in the ED, or have a patient finish their hospitalization in the home…

April 9th, 2023

Like many markets across the country, the Twin Cities in Minnesota are confronting a reduction in skilled nursing beds, which is forcing patients to remain in hospitals for longer periods of time — with skilled nursing-at-home gaining momentum as a solution to these discharge pressures.

“The average length-of-stay on the hospital side is eight days for patients waiting for a SNF bed, whereas those with SNF-at-home go home in three days — that tells you that this is solving a problem we have in Minnesota, where there are not enough SNF beds available,” Inbound Health Founding Chief Operating Officer Julia Crist told Skilled Nursing News…

March 30th, 2023

The rise of hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home models has been making headlines for the last month, with related opportunities and complications for senior living becoming clearer.

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) generated some of these headlines by announcing a partnership with Advocate Health. The partnership aims to expand Advocate’s hospital-at-home offering, which the Charlotte, North Carolina-based health system describes as the nation’s largest…

March 29th, 2023

Minneapolis-based Allina Health has greatly expanded remote patient monitoring since launching hospital-at-home company Inbound Health in October.

The health system has treated more than 5,000 patients with 350-plus diagnoses using biometric monitoring, virtual visits with hospitalists and geriatricians, digital surveillance, and in-home nurses and therapy.

Inbound Health says it has lowered the cost of care by 30 to 40 percent on a risk-adjusted basis, with similar or improved outcomes, and outperformed brick-and-mortar post-acute facilities in preventing hospital readmissions…

March 28th, 2023

Since Allina Health formed Inbound Health in 2020, the hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home enablement platform has helped the Minneapolis-based health system deliver more than 5,000 home-based acute care episodes.

Prior to Inbound Health, this level of care didn’t exist at Allina Health…