How Are You Going to Spend Your $1B in Rural Hospital Funding? By Patrick Quinlan, MD Washington has unlocked $50 billion for rural hospital relief (approximately $1B per state, thanks to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS Rural Health Transformation Program). That sounds like a massive breakthrough. But let’s be honest: if we spend […]
Real Remote Care Solutions for Rural Maternal Health A new report by the CHQPR shows that fewer than 41% of US Rural hospitals still provide Maternal Health services, down 5% since 2020. An additional 13% are in danger of closure (127 rural hospital maternal health units). For rural mothers, this means no local maternal healthcare […]
How Coactive Care Could Radically Improve Healthcare Delivery Coactive Care allows certified caregivers to provide patient care under the direct guidance of remote clinicians (physician, PA, nurse, etc.) This new care delivery model improves access, cost, productivity and satisfaction by providing care at home to improve wellness for the 10% of patients who generate 70% […]
Transforming Healthcare in Kenya: How Dr. Dennis Kinoti and Hippo Virtual Care Are Reaching the Unreachable In the heart of Kibera, one of Africa’s largest informal settlements, Dr. Dennis Kinoti is leading a quiet revolution. Armed with a wearable headset and a commitment to bring specialist care to underserved communities, Dr. Kinoti is redefining what […]
How Rural Hospitals Can Survive the One Big Beautiful Bill Hippo can help you take the lead in delivering better care with fewer resources, right where it’s needed most. The One Big Beautiful Bill OBBB may carry a celebratory name, but for rural hospitals, it represents a growing crisis that could permanently reshape the healthcare […]
Healthcare Is a Relationship, Not a Transaction How Hippo is Restoring the Human Connection in Virtual Care In today’s fragmented healthcare environment, it can be easy to forget that healthcare is fundamentally about people. Behind every chart, diagnosis, or prescription is a human being who wants to feel seen, heard, and cared for. However, the […]
Redefining Remote Care: No IT. No Overhead. No Excuses. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care was underused and underdeveloped. Then, in the first three months of the pandemic alone, virtual visits surged 766%. But many of those solutions were stitched together in haste – introducing complexity, IT headaches, and poor clinical fit. Hippo was built differently. […]
A Practical Approach to Saving Rural Health Rural healthcare is dwindling at an alarming rate, leaving a trail of lost and unseen patients and caregivers. In more and more cases, care in rural communities now resembles care in emerging countries. The good news is that we already have sufficient resources to increase access to care […]
How Coactive Care Could Radically Improve Healthcare Delivery By Tom Fee, VP, Hippo North America Coactive Care allows certified caregivers to provide patient care under the direct guidance of remote clinicians (physician, PA, nurse, etc.) This new care delivery model improves access, cost, productivity and satisfaction by providing care at home to improve wellness for […]
Transforming Struggling Rural Hospitals into Centers of Confidence Over the last 30 years, urban health systems have implemented a rural affiliation strategy of channeling specialty acute care patients (e.g., major surgery, cerebrovascular, neonate, cancer) from primary rural facilities in a “hub and spoke” model. The hub and spoke model promised that rural hospitals would have […]