Alternate Solutions formed a similar joint venture earlier in 2013 with Kettering Health Network in the Dayton market. That deal merged Kettering Health’s existing Home Care and InHome Care services with Alternate Solution’s Dayton area operations, and gave Alternate Solutions management oversight over the combined home health care business.
The types of home health care services to be offered by The Christ Hospital Home Health Care include skilled nursing; physical, occupational and speech therapies; home nursing/health aide; and assistance with care management.
“By delivering our own home healthcare services, our patients will benefit from a well-coordinated care plan, efficient, cost-effective delivery of care, improved medication management, and improved outcomes,” said Dr. Michael Jennings, executive medical director of comprehensive medicine services for Christ Hospital, in a statement.
For more information about Christ Hospital Home Health Care, call 513-585-3058.
Doing more hospital partnerships like these is the future growth strategy for Alternate Solutions, Tessie Ganzsarto, co-founder and president of Alternate, told Dayton Daily News previously.
"We really look to only partner, we're not going to do startups. We think we bring a lot of value to the table and quite honestly a benefit to the hospital that really just needs that expertise in doing what we do everyday. So we just see it as a huge opportunity for us and other systems," Ganzsarto said in a previous interview.
Health systems are looking to partner on home care in preparation for health care reform, which changes the way health care systems are paid, she has said. By working with an affiliated partner, it helps hospitals and nursing homes control costs and keep from losing the patient referral back to the hospital or nursing home.
“You’re going to see hospitals really focusing on their post-acute space. It’s going to be such a big part of how care is delivered … because you’re going to have to find the highest quality at the lowest cost setting,” Ganzsarto has said.
Alternate Solutions HomeCare is headquartered at 1251 E. Dorothy Ln., Kettering.