Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions recently went all in on the hospital-at-home movement. With an investment in Medically Home, it launched Velocare as a pilot and began delivering medical supplies, equipment, products and technology services to patients who were admitted into hospital-at-home programs across the U.S.

Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions is a medical supplies and products distributor. As a division of at-Home Solutions, Velocare is positioned to support hospitals by delivering and maintaining supplies and installing the technology needed for a hospital-at-home program. The Velocare platform developed by Cardinal Health (pictured below at Medtrade) to deliver this solution allows for rapid response to new patients being admitted into a health system’s hospital-at-home program.

Because of its connection to at-Home Solutions, Velocare can offer a wide range of medical supplies and solutions utilizing the business’ nearly 50,000 available product offerings and Cardinal Health’s distribution center network, which offers space for Velocare’s warehouse depots. This ensures medical supplies, durable medical equipment, nutritional support, medical gases, general courier services and more get to the patient in as little as two hours.

In March 2023, Velocare rolled out of its pilot, expanding to its second health system customer. Just one year later, it’s serving more than a dozen health systems and hospitals across the country as the distribution leg of their hospital-at-home programs.

In total, Velocare has made nearly 10,000 deliveries to patients’ homes across the country – serving thousands of patients nationwide. And, Velocare is growing steadily, working with hospitals across the U.S., including Portland, Oregon; Boston, Detroit, Atlanta and more. Next month, it will launch in its largest metro area yet: Los Angeles.

Alex Hoopes, the senior director of strategy and execution for Velocare, was instrumental in innovating and developing Velocare and continues to lead this business today. He said, “Since COVID-19, the U.S. healthcare system has been working through clinical workforce shortages, overflowing hospitals and increasing costs. Couple that with an aging population and an overall patient desire to recover in the home, you have the perfect recipe for accelerating the spread of hospital-at-home programs across the country.”