Grantee Name
Home Aide Service of Eastern New York, Inc. / Eddy Visiting Nurse Association (The Eddy)
Funding Area
Special Projects Fund
Publication Date
July 2016
Grant Amount
$399,920
Grant Date:
November 2012 – April 2015
By 2030, the number of permanently homebound individuals in the U.S. will increase by 50% to reach 2 million.
These highest-need and sickest patients are also the ones who bear the greatest financial burden on the health care system. In 2011, Samaritan Hospital privately launched a small home-based care pilot program to determine whether a medical house call service could help patients with frequent hospital readmissions. The results were promising—the majority of patients were not re-hospitalized, and the conclusion was that the medical house call model warrants further study on a larger scale.
In 2012, NYHealth awarded a grant to Eddy Visiting Nurse Association (Eddy VNA) and its affiliate St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates to test the medical house call model in four upstate New York counties: Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, and Saratoga.