Intermittent care
- Check on a patient twice a day to observe medication administration.
- Keep a patient in the hospital for a few hours of IV therapy each day.
The right care, in the right setting
Unlock capacity across your ER and hospital.
Carina Health helps appropriate patients continue care in the right setting. We identify alternatives, action the discharge plan, and stay involved through the next phase of care—creating capacity across the ER and hospital.
Why capacity gets stuck
When care could happen elsewhere, hospital capacity shouldn’t have to fill the gap.
Patients may be ready to leave, but delays in access, arrangements, or follow-through keep hospital beds and clinicians tied up with care another team or setting could provide. This leaves less capacity for patients who need hospital-level care.
Delayed access
- Keep a stable patient overnight until imaging or lab testing becomes available.
- Have a patient wait in a hospital bed for a specialist evaluation.
Transition blockers
- Delay discharge while necessary equipment is delivered or installed.
- Keep a patient in the hospital until home services or transportation can be confirmed.
- Hold a patient with Medicaid while an accepting provider or covered service is secured.
Follow-up demands
- Pull an ER physician back into a case when a specialist or outpatient team needs guidance after discharge.
- Ask the ER team to coordinate next steps for a patient they have already assessed and handed off.
- Send a patient back to the ER when the original plan breaks down or the patient’s needs change.
Individually, these may look like small demands. Across a hospital, they add up to occupied beds, ER boarding, longer waits, slower throughput, and clinicians stretched across more patients.
Results and impact
What dependable follow-through makes possible.
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How Carina Health works
From a possible alternative to delivered care.
Carina Health works alongside the hospital team and existing care network to identify appropriate pathways, make the discharge plan happen, and respond when needs change.
Hospital care team
Defines the patient’s clinical needs, timing, and requirements and makes the disposition decision.
Carina Health
1. Identify
Monitor the active census and work alongside the care team to surface patients who may benefit from an alternative pathway.
2. Evaluate
Confirm that an available pathway can meet the patient’s clinical, operational, coverage, and timing requirements.
3. Coordinate
Bring together the providers, appointments, services, equipment, transportation, authorizations, and handoffs required for the transition.
4. Action
Action the plan by completing the arrangements, confirming each handoff, and moving the patient into the next setting of care.
5. Respond
Remain available for follow-up questions, triage changes, and reroute the patient when the original pathway breaks down or no longer meets their needs.
Care network
Delivers the next phase of care through existing programs and partners:
- Home infusion / OPAT
- Virtual care
- Home health
- Next-day primary care
- Specialty care
- Ambulatory diagnostics
- SNF / post-acute care
- Hospice / palliative care
Patient journey
The discharge is only the beginning.
A patient needs continued treatment for an infection. The treating team determines that care outside the hospital could be appropriate if the treatment and follow-up can be arranged.
Without Carina Health
- Referral sent.
- Next step uncertain.
- Follow-through falls between teams.
- Limited visibility after discharge.
- Cases left unresolved.
With Carina Health
- Next step arranged and confirmed.
- One service owns the follow-through.
- Progress tracked after discharge.
- Questions and changes addressed.
- Cases followed through to closure.
Care pathways
Where coordinated alternatives could help.
Each health system has different patient needs and care resources. We select starting points together based on where coordination could make a meaningful difference.
Infections and home-based treatment
Home infusion and outpatient antibiotic therapy for patients who can receive continued treatment outside the hospital.
Cardiopulmonary care
Virtual-ward and home-based acute-care pathways where clinically appropriate.
Urgent specialty needs
Timely outpatient evaluation when access to specialty care is the barrier.
Serious illness and supportive care
Palliative, hospice, and other supportive-care pathways aligned with the patient’s goals and care needs.
Delayed imaging and diagnostics
When imaging or lab backlogs delay testing, appropriate patients can be safely discharged rather than admitted or held overnight, with return appointments and transportation arranged upfront.
Built around the health system
Your clinical standards.
Your care ecosystem.
Carina Health works with the programs, partners, and clinical standards a health system already has. Our role is to make those resources easier to act on and carry the plan through the gaps between organizations.
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Health-system-approved clinical pathways and governance
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Existing internal programs and external care partners
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Fit with clinical and operational workflows
Let’s start a conversation
Where does capacity get stuck today?
Let’s discuss where follow-through breaks down, which care resources are already available, and where a focused Carina Health pathway could make the greatest difference.