Elara Caring CEO Scott Powers to be Among Featured Speakers at Home Care Innovation and Investment Conference

Elara Continues to Lead the Way in Leveraging Innovation to Improve Outcomes for Patients, Payers and Providers via a High-Tech, High-Touch Home Health Model

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scott Powers, Chief Executive Officer of Elara Caring, the full-scale, multi-state home health provider of clinical and personalized services across the patient continuum, will be speaking at the Home Care Innovation and Investment (HI2) Conference, joining other home care executives to discuss the state of the industry. He will serve as a panelist on the conference’s CEO Panel, “Growth and Innovation in a Managed Care World,” which will focus on such topics as the home care labor market, the healthcare economy, the state of managed care and new service lines.

“Escalating demand requires the home health industry to focus more deeply on innovative solutions, from value-based care models to cutting-edge technologies,” said Scott Powers. “Events like HI2 provide opportunities for us to learn from each other and share our successes, helping us collectively improve outcomes for all stakeholders.”

Under Scott’s leadership, Elara has evolved from a traditional home health company focused on volume of service to a national leader in the delivery of high-quality, technology-driven at-home care. Today, its value-based agreements are delivering tangible results to payers and plan members, including:

• diverting 70% of visits to skilled nursing facilities;
• reducing hospital readmission rates by 40%;
• reducing care delivery costs by 25%;
• doubling patient touch points using remote patient monitoring and virtual care; and
• achieving a 92 Net Promoter Score for its services.

The HI2 Conference brings together more than 500 attendees, including home care providers, private equity, venture capital, deal-related services, and home care suppliers. It takes place Monday, June 12 through Wednesday, June 14 at the Swissotel Chicago Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.

About Elara Caring

Elara Caring is one of the nation’s leading providers of home-based care, offering Skilled Home Health, Hospice, Personal Care Services, Behavioral Health and Palliative Care. With a footprint in 17 states in the Northeast, Midwest and Southwest, it serves more than 60,000 patients and their families across 200 locations. The Elara Caring mission is to deliver exceptional, personalized health care services wherever patients call home. The company accomplishes this by hiring compassionate people who believe in taking care of its patients, clients, care providers and each other. It also offers critical support through the Elara Caring Hospice Foundation, which provides physical, emotional, spiritual and/or social assistance to terminally ill individuals and their families. For more information, visit elara.com.