Accelerate Learnings
How We Work
CaroNova’s approach to pioneering lasting real-world health solutions is systematic, research-driven, collaborative, and community-minded. We purposely identify opportunities where partners can work together to cultivate, co-design, and catalyze health improvements in the Carolinas through our process.
Accelerator Project Purpose
Accelerator Life Cycle
Cultivate
Co-Design
We engage with payors, providers, patients and community members on the front end of the process, connecting and leveraging resources to create and refine health innovations.
Catalyze
We use evidence to drive care, as well as payment and policy reforms that sustain effective approaches. Then we share and replicate what works.
Projects Currently At This Stage
Health System Workforce Experience Accelerator
CaroNova is supporting a bi-state collaborative to transform the workforce experience, examining the root causes of burnout and lack of professional fulfillment, and working with health systems to codesign and launch an online resource suite of existing best practices and innovative strategies.
Completed Projects:
Home Hospital Accelerator
Born out of opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Home Hospital Early Adopters Accelerator (HHEAA) supported hospitals and health systems to provide healthcare services in locations other than hospitals, making a more comfortable and less disruptive experience for low-acuity patients and their daily routines while also preserving hospital beds and staff for higher acuity patients.
CaroNova launched the HHEAA in September 2021 to leverage CMS’s emergency Hospital Without Walls waiver, put into place in response to a strain on hospital bed capacity during the pandemic. The waiver provided regulatory flexibility to hospitals to provide care in locations beyond their facilities, including in a patient’s home.
Opioid Stewardship Accelerator
CaroNova launched the Opioid Stewardship Accelerator (OSA) in 2022 to support hospitals and health systems responding to the devastating opioid epidemic that persists across the Carolinas. The OSA is ultimately intended to catalyze the communitywide collaboration and systems changes necessary to improve health outcomes.
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CaroNova brings together healthcare leaders, policymakers, community organizations, and investors to tackle the Carolinas’ most pressing health challenges.
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