PROVIDENCE – University Medicine has partnered with HopeHealth, a nonprofit organization that provides home care and hospice services in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, to ensure access to consistent 24-hour care for University Medicine patients.
The partnership, announced Tuesday, designates two HopeHealth centers – Visiting Nurse of HopeHealth in Lincoln and Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Rhode Island in Providence – as University Medicine preferred providers. Under the agreement, University Medicine physicians will be able to send their patients to Visiting Nurse and Hope Hospice for home care, palliative and hospice services.
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“As University Medicine works to expand its high level of care into the home environment, we are pleased to partner with leaders in the home care and hospice field,” said Dr. Louis B. Rice, president and physician-in-chief of University Medicine, in a statement. “This relationship allows us to extend the scope of our medical treatment for patients so we can ensure that continued, high-quality care is available to them in the convenience of their homes.”
University Medicine is a nonprofit primary care and specialty outpatient medical group practice comprising more than 200 physicians at locations throughout Rhode Island, including Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital in Providence.
Both University Medicine and Hope Hospice, the second-oldest hospice in the country, are major teaching affiliates of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Visiting Nurse of HopeHealth was founded in 1908 and provides home care to residents of Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts.
“These organizations are at the forefront of home and hospice care,” said Dr. Peter Hollmann, chief medical officer of University Medicine. “They are leaders in their respective fields. Partnering in this manner reflects University Medicine’s commitment to be truly accountable for our patients’ care across the full spectrum of need.”
The partnership with HopeHealth further expands the range of services University Medicine’s physicians provide in the Greater Providence area following the group’s consolidation in a new medical building in East Providence last fall and its integration with six other formerly independent physician practices under the newly established Brown Physicians Inc. earlier this month.
Kaylen Auer is a PBN contributing writer.
