Why Advocate Health Is Ripe For Home-Based Care Innovation

Advocate Health is still undergoing a large-scale integration process to turn the two legacy enterprises into one. One of the key parts of that process will be looking at what each health system did – and does – well in the home. The goal is ultimately to build those capabilities on top of each other. Advocate Health cares for about 6 million patients annually through about 150,000 employees, over 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals. “How do we build out this well-coordinated, innovative platform for care in the home?”  While plenty of health systems did opt to home in on core competencies during and after the pandemic, there are other health systems that continue to invest in home-based care. Take Intermountain Health, for example, which recently added another home health agency to its portfolio. Like Advocate Health, Intermountain Health sees home-based care capabilities as a positive differentiator for health systems.