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| New Home Health Care Report and No-Cost Webinar |
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Home Health Care in the Dark:
What Providers and Health Plans Can Do to Deliver Resilient Backup Power to Medically Vulnerable Households |
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| A Report from Clean Energy Group and Meridian Institute |
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| June marks the start of hurricane and fire season for millions of Americans. |
| The nation's healthcare industry leaders should recognize that it's past time to address the dangers faced by more than 2.5 million Americans
- primarily senior populations - when power outages from storms, fires, or other disasters impact the home medical devices that the medically vulnerable need to survive. How battery storage systems can mitigate this expanding risk is examined in a new report from two national nonprofits, Clean Energy Group and Meridian Institute: |
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| The need for battery storage solutions is especially critical today as more people opt to receive medical care at home, rather than in a nursing home or hospital. As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, access to resilient backup power in the event of an outage can be a matter of life or death for these populations. For example, health care complications, including outage-related issues like medical device failure, accounted for almost one-third of the estimated 4,645 deaths in the three months following Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands in 2017.
As some California utilities consider de-energizing the grid to prevent possible fires, given the tragedy of the Camp Fire in 2018, resilient power solutions will become more critical for those dependent on electrical equipment for home health and health care needs in the event of future grid outages.
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| Join Clean Energy Group for a no-cost webinar on
June 27, 2019, 1-2 pm ET
to discuss the full findings of the report. |
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