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WellSky, a leading global health and community care technology and services company, today announced the availability of the WellSky CarePort Care Transitions Dashboard Suite. The suite harnesses insights from WellSky CarePort solutions, electronic health records (EHR), and claims data to empower acute care providers with intuitive visualizations of referral metrics and trends. The dashboards will provide deeper insights to guide data-driven care decisions, leading to optimized operations, improved efficiency, and stronger networks.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, and UF Health St. Johns Care Connect, a community outreach program of the UF Health network in Florida, today jointly released a case study detailing how Care Connect used the WellSky Community Services solution to significantly reduce wait times for students seeking behavioral health services. In the last five years, the average time required for a student to schedule a behavioral health appointment dropped from 90 days in 2018 to just 18 days in the 2023-24 school year.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, today announced that in the last year 400 hospitals and health systems chose WellSky CarePort solutions to streamline care transitions. With more than 3,000 additional providers now connected, WellSky is improving health outcomes for millions of patients across care settings. This remarkable growth cements WellSky as the partner of choice for providers working to eliminate gaps in care, prevent readmissions, and deliver quality care.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, today announced the launch of WellSky Resource Manager, a groundbreaking new solution designed to transform patient scheduling and workforce management processes. This innovative platform has already demonstrated significant benefits for early adopters, including Doctor’s Choice Home Care & Hospice, which has seen a 34% increase in the average number of home health patient visits per month and a 16% decrease in mileage per visit at its Lufkin, Texas, location.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, today announced the launch of a new patient panel, available only in the WellSky CarePort Connect solution, that will equip providers with critical and holistic knowledge of their patient population. This expanded visibility gives providers immediate and essential information to help ensure patients receive the right care at the right time and in the right setting.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, today announced it will participate in the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), a federally supported data exchange framework for national interoperability of patient health information. With its participation in TEFCA, WellSky reaffirms its commitment to advancing secure data sharing across the healthcare continuum to support the efficient exchange of clinical health information between care providers and will be positioned to optimize data sharing workflows with its provider clients across the care continuum.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, today announced the availability of WellSky Extract for Home Health, a powerful new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to extract key information from patient-related documents and pictures of drug labels to populate data into the electronic health record (EHR), reducing manual documentation time, helping to ensure medication information is transferred accurately, and improving the patient and clinician experience.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology and services company, today unveiled SkySense, a suite of artificial intelligence-powered tools designed to increase operational and clinician efficiencies. Providers will benefit from the SkySense extract, transcribe, and summarize tools to automate forms and reduce documentation time and errors, while increasing patient-provider interaction.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology and services company, and the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS), today shared the results of a survey assessing the readiness of states to comply with the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final rule (Access Rule) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that it has acquired Bonafide, an enterprise software solution for durable medical equipment (DME) and home medical equipment (HME) companies. With the addition of Bonafide, WellSky expands its footprint in DME/HME and will serve more providers with an integrated software platform that allows them to run their businesses compliantly, efficiently, and profitably.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released its third Evolution of Care report. The 2024 report, based on data from WellSky’s network of over 2,500 hospitals, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and physician practices, along with 130,000 providers across the United States, delves into the transformations in care delivery over the last year, highlighting the significant impact they have on patients and providers.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a new partnership with Connect 211, a modern search engine for community resources. The combined power of WellSky and Connect 211 will allow social services providers to better serve their communities with modern, mobile-friendly websites that make resource data easily searchable online.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, along with CareRing Health, an innovative healthcare organization creating a new integrated healthcare-at-home service delivery model for America’s chronically ill, aged, and disabled populations, today announced a new partnership. CareRing will leverage WellSky’s electronic health record technology, analytics solutions, and services to deliver more efficient and effective care to its home-bound patients.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the successful launch of WellSky CareInsights and WellSky Value-Based Insights at Sentara Home Care Services, the home health arm of Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system in Virginia and North Carolina.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Atlantic Health System (Atlantic Health), a premier provider of healthcare in New Jersey. Building on the successful implementation of real-time post-acute performance analytics solution, CarePort Insight, in 2021, Atlantic Health is further strengthening care coordination and patient management across the healthcare continuum with CarePort Connect.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology and services company, today shared the results of a recent survey of health plans regarding challenges they face with post-acute care (PAC) management. The findings reveal that only 37% of respondents manage members in a post-acute setting after discharge from acute care, with the majority attempting to manage this care internally rather than partnering with external vendors and providers.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the release of WellSky TeamEngage powered by Ava, a new innovation for home-based care providers aimed at increasing employee retention, reliability, and recruitment through gamification. The solution incentivizes and rewards caregivers for completing targeted activities and achieving performance goals, fostering a culture of appreciation while improving staff retention rates and agency differentiation.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that the WellSky Patient platform has been selected as winner of the “Best Overall Patient Engagement Platform” award in the 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global digital health and medical technology market.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the release of WellSky Value-Based Insights for Hospice, a new analytics solution focused on quality of care and market intelligence for hospice agencies of all sizes. The solution tracks clinical quality outcomes for hospice agencies, identifying areas for improvement and generating marketable performance snapshots for agencies and their referral source partners.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a new certification for clinical teams designed to indicate expertise in the provision of Medicare Certified Home Health. The Clinical Care Specialist-Home Health (CCS-HH) certification will be the gold standard measurement of competency for the home health industry that captures the core expertise and knowledge required to be successful in advancing clinical practice.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, and Millennium Physician Group, a value-based physician group with more than 800 healthcare providers across the Southeast, today announced a new multi-year partnership to drive improved outcomes for Millennium patients. Through this partnership, Millennium’s high-quality physicians and advanced providers can leverage WellSky’s technology, clinical services team, and extensive acute, post-acute, and home care footprint to improve patient outcomes. As market dynamics shift toward value-based care, this partnership sets a new standard for healthcare delivery.

Today, leading healthcare technology and services firms tango and WellSky announced they have partnered to deliver a fully integrated, post-acute care (PAC) episode management program for health plans, focused on facilitating high quality, end-to-end post-acute care management. This innovative partnership is intended to align incentives for health plans, risk bearing entities, providers, and patients across the post-acute continuum. Together, tango and WellSky aim to enable higher quality care, enhance provider experience, reward providers for quality outcomes, boost patient satisfaction, and deliver guaranteed cost savings.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud to leverage its secure cloud technologies, advanced data analytics tools, machine learning capabilities, and its enterprise-ready artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Vertex AI. The collaboration will provide WellSky with new tools to address current and future challenges across the care continuum.​

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, and Vytalize Health, a leading Accountable Care Organization (ACO), announced a new collaboration to optimize value-based care outcomes. With this new partnership, Vytalize Health will leverage the WellSky Next Generation Provider solution and services suite to facilitate bi-directional communication and care coordination between acute and post-acute providers. This will improve value-based outcomes for patients by sharing critical information across care settings and discharging patients to high performing post-acute facilities.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released a new case study highlighting how home health agency The LTM Group utilized powerful WellSky analytics tools to rapidly decrease hospitalization rates and make a significant impact on patient care. Using the WellSky Insights suite, The LTM Group analyzes hospitalization risk, care setting suitability, and visit utilization to help ensure patients receive the right care at the right time.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released results from a survey of physician leaders in ambulatory care that found 75% of respondents do not have established partnerships with post-acute care providers. For those who do, communication between the clinicians and other caregivers takes place primarily over the phone, leading to a lack of visibility into their patients’ care journeys.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that it has acquired Corridor, an end-to-end tech-enabled services platform designed for the post-acute care industry’s toughest challenges, from HealthEdge Investment Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm. By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improve performance across clinical, financial, operational, and compliance areas.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the release of WellSky Enterprise Referral Manager, a new software solution that transforms referral, intake, and customer relationship management (CRM) processes for home health, hospice, and other home-based care agencies. The solution centralizes referral-related activities between staff members, allowing agencies to streamline and consolidate workflows, expand referral relationships, and accelerate the start of care for patients.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced its strategic partnership with Element5, a workflow automation solution company for post-acute care. The partnership will expand the availability of workflow automation solutions across WellSky’s expansive home health and hospice client base. Together, WellSky and Element5 are enabling agencies to easily automate complex administrative tasks across the patient journey, freeing clinicians' time at a point when staffing is already constrained.

WellSky appreciates the opportunity to offer our comments in response to the Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Home Health (HH) Prospective Payment System Rate Update Proposed Rule1 (the “Proposed Rule”). Founded over 40 years ago, WellSky is a healthcare solutions company that serves one in three home-based care providers and powers a network of 12,000+ home- and community-based providers employing 1,000,000+ nurses, physical and occupational therapists, social workers, home health aides, and caregivers. WellSky’s national network paired with real-time analytics enables a care coordination platform that can deploy both skilled and non-skilled home-based care interventions to individuals across the country.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that it has acquired Experience Care, an innovative technology company offering a suite of software solutions for post-acute and long-term care providers. With the addition of Experience Care, WellSky expands its commitment and investment in the long-term care market.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced it has joined the Moving Health Home (MHH) coalition. MHH comprises stakeholders working to advance federal and state policy to enable the home to be a clinical site of care.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the launch of WellSky TeamInsights for Personal Care — a workforce analytics platform providing real-time insights into caregiver productivity and performance — helping personal care agencies to optimize personnel resources, improve engagement, and increase caregiver retention.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released its second annual Evolution of Care report. Based on proprietary data from WellSky’s CarePort solutions, which are used by over 2,000 hospitals and 130,000 post-acute care (PAC) providers, the report explores the ways care delivery has changed over the past year and sheds light on the implications for patients and providers as we enter a new era of post-pandemic healthcare.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released a new report detailing results from a three-year study of home healthcare providers using predictive analytics tools in patient management. The study, “Improving home health outcomes using predictive analytics,” demonstrates that agencies using WellSky CareInsights for Home Health consistently outperform those that do not in two critical areas: hospitalization rates and care efficiency.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced it has introduced new predictive analytics capabilities within WellSky’s CarePort Connect solution that will help hospitals, payers, and post-acute care providers better identify patients suited for hospice care and get them referred to hospice in a more timely manner. With a referral network that includes 2,000 hospitals across the U.S., WellSky powers more than 13 million hospital discharges per year and now will provide a first-of-its-kind national hospice suitability identification network.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that WellSky CareInsights for Hospice has been selected as “Best Predictive Analytics Solution” in the seventh annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global health and medical technology market. This is the fourth year in a row that WellSky has been honored by MedTech Breakthrough.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced new predictive analytics capabilities in its CarePort Connect solution to help providers improve cost and quality by reducing skilled nursing facility (SNF) readmissions and optimizing end-of-life care transitions. These algorithms are part of the new 360° Risk Summary, enabling providers to pinpoint in real time when nursing home patients’ risk of rehospitalization rises and when they may benefit from a hospice evaluation.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced expanded capabilities in its CarePort suite of care transition solutions. These new enhancements equip discharge planners, care managers, and care coordinators with enhanced intelligence at the point of discharge to help them make more informed decisions and ensure patients receive the best possible care and support as they transition from the hospital to home or another care setting.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a new partnership with Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice to reach more patients in need of end-of-life care. With WellSky Hospice & Palliative software and analytics tools, the independent non-profit hospice and palliative care organization based in Wisconsin will improve the quality of care it delivers.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced the launch of WellSky Patient, a transformative patient engagement platform aimed at identifying patient health risks, avoiding complications, and improving outcomes through stronger transparency and communication between patients, families, and clinical care teams.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a new partnership with VITAS Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care. VITAS will leverage WellSky technology to streamline its operations, allowing clinicians to focus on high-quality patient care delivery. The two organizations also will collaborate to advance innovations within the WellSky Hospice & Palliative solution and to accelerate VITAS’ efforts to scale into new markets.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a new partnership with Silverado, a hospice, palliative care, and memory care organization, to improve the quality of care delivered to patients and increase clinical staff efficiency with WellSky Hospice & Palliative software and analytics tools.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced a collaborative effort with the Alloantibody Exchange, a non-profit dedicated to improving blood transfusion safety and building a national transfusion antibody registry easily accessible to both hospitals and blood banks.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced it has partnered with Panoramic Health, the largest integrated value-based kidney care platform in the U.S. and a leader in the innovation of kidney care, to provide higher quality and more cost effective care to patients living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced it is significantly expanding its partnership with Option Care Health Inc. (NASDAQ: OPCH), the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services. Option Care Health will collaborate with WellSky to accelerate innovations and workflow enhancements within WellSky’s infusion and specialty pharmacy platform, CareTend®, and will implement the software across its more than 160 Option Care Health locations.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released a new case study in partnership with Reading Hospital in West Reading, PA, that finds addressing food insecurity — a critical social determinant of health (SDoH) — reduced key measures of healthcare utilization by more than 30 percent.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced it has partnered with Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan (CCSEM), a community-based organization working to address social determinants of health (SDoH) challenges in Michigan communities. With this partnership, CCSEM will become an in-network provider for health plans using the WellSky Social Care Coordination platform to manage member referrals.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced it is taking a significant role in the national effort to increase access to and facilitate sharing of social determinants of health (SDoH) information across care settings. WellSky’s commitment will be recognized later today at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today released a new report highlighting five key trends impacting post-acute care providers in the wake of the pandemic. Opportunities and Challenges: The Transformation of Post-Acute Care in America uses Admission, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) and referral data sourced from over 1,000 hospitals and 130,000 post-acute care providers, along with publicly available data from Medicare.gov, to provide an in-depth look at the characteristics of hospital inpatient and post-acute patient populations, demand for post-acute care, patient preference for where to receive post-acute care, and labor shortages across the industry.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, has submitted the following comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to express its sincere concern with CMS’s proposed cuts to the home health program and its providers.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that in the past year, nearly 100 behavioral health facilities have chosen WellSky Specialty Care as their technology platform to increase access to critically needed mental and behavioral healthcare services. These organizations serve more than 135,000 patients across the U.S.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that WellSky CareInsights™ has won the Healthcare Analytics Innovation Award in the sixth annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and solutions in the global health and medical technology market.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced plans to build upon its legacy as a transformative leader in the healthcare technology space by hiring a new chief growth officer to lead the next phase of the company’s evolution and expanding its footprint in the Kansas City region.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, is making significant investments in technology and services designed to alleviate the workforce shortages affecting the home healthcare industry.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that Healthify, a technology platform providing end-to-end solutions to address social determinants of health (SDoH), has rebranded to WellSky Social Care Coordination. WellSky acquired Healthify in 2021 as part of its commitment to facilitate better care coordination between payers, providers, health systems, and community organizations.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology company, announced today that it intends to acquire TapCloud, a virtual patient engagement technology company that helps patients, caregivers, and clinicians communicate crucial information in real-time to achieve better health outcomes.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced they will work with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to implement in-home, heart failure care protocols that are intended to reduce hospital readmissions for patients discharged after admission for heart failure. Heart failure is a leading cause of hospital readmission in the United States, with an average 30-day readmission rate of nearly 25 percent, generating more than one million hospital stays annually.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, and Option Care Health Inc. (NASDAQ: OPCH), the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services, today announced they will launch CommonWell Health Alliance® (“CommonWell”) services in Quarter 2 of 2022, enabling better care coordination for the more than 250,000 unique patients Option Care Health serves annually. Option Care Health will be one of the first WellSky clients to go live with the CommonWell network and its bridge to the Carequality framework.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced its partnership with UnityPoint at Home, a subsidiary of UnityPoint Health that supports UnityPoint Accountable Care, the organization’s accountable care organization (ACO) and at-risk contracts. UnityPoint at Home will use WellSky’s care coordination platform and network of more than 4,000 personal care agencies to provide personal care as part of its Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)-at-home program.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that ClearCare, a technology platform for non-medical home-based care, has rebranded to WellSky Personal Care. WellSky acquired ClearCare in 2019 as part of its commitment to enabling coordinated care across the acute, post-acute, and community care continuum. Under WellSky, the company has accelerated the pace of innovation to provide new core platform features and extended the solution to payers, hospitals, and other providers.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that Seema Verma, the longest-serving administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in modern history, has joined the company’s board of directors. Verma’s vast experience creating national healthcare policies and developing technology standards will accelerate WellSky’s mission to transform care at every level.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced that Andy Eilert has joined the company as President, Emerging Markets, effective immediately. In this role, Eilert will focus on enhancing WellSky’s provider software and analytics capabilities to optimize care and scale provider performance through new ventures and strategic opportunities in emerging healthcare markets.

WellSky, a health and community care technology company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Healthify, a company that improves the health of communities by connecting healthcare organizations with social service organizations to address the social determinants of health (SDoH).

BrightSpring Health Services, the nation’s leading provider of complementary home- and community-based health services and pharmacy services, has partnered with WellSky, a global health and community care technology company, to leverage performance analytics technology to drive their growth strategy. Through the use of WellSky Value-Based Insights, a data analytics solution from the WellSky Value-Based Care Suite, BrightSpring has been able to enhance partnerships with referral sources, maximize their relationships with payers, and optimize their clinical strengths.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology company, today announced the next chapter in its ongoing mission to realize better healthcare outcomes: the launch of the WellSky Value-Based Care Suite. The new suite is built for provider, payer, and patient collaboration in today’s value-based care environment, with a range of offerings that enable care coordination, interoperability, predictive insights, value-based agreements, and emerging health-at-home programs.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology company, today announced the launch of its newest predictive analytics solution, CareInsights for Personal Care. The personal care industry’s first purpose-built predictive analytics solution, the CareInsights functionality analyzes personal care and other clinical data to present providers a comprehensive view of key factors relating to an individual’s risk for hospitalization.

WellSky, a global health and community care technology company, today announced that Akash Raj has joined WellSky as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. With extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies, Raj has a proven track record of providing operational and financial leadership that drives value creation.

WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, today announced new enhancements to its data analytics solution for home health. The new addition to the CareInsights™ solution suite, known as CareInsights Guidance, provides actionable visit utilization insights to balance the goals of care quality and patient health improvement with the need to control costs — and early adopters of the new capabilities are already realizing the benefits for their patients, staff, and business.