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Home Health Virtual Summit 2026

Care delivery is moving beyond the clinic, so that health systems and organizations can meet patients where they are. Hear from provider leaders who are actively redesigning care delivery as they share what’s working today in real-world settings.
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As healthcare delivery rapidly shifts beyond traditional clinic walls, for hospital and health system leaders, the real challenge isn’t whether care moves into the home. It’s how to operationalize, staff, support, and scale high-quality care in decentralized environments without adding complexity or cost. 

The Home Health Innovation Summit brought together provider leaders who are actively redesigning care delivery, from in-home clinical teams and mobile programs to hybrid models supported by virtual oversight, to share what’s working in real-world settings. 

The Summit featured give speakers from leading health systems who shared how they are delivering care where patients live, examining operational design, managing clinical workflows, improving staffing models, and enabling technology that support safe, efficient, and scalable care in the home. 

The event concluded with an interactive roundtable discussion, where all speakers came together to answer audience questions and exchange insights on the future of home-based care delivery.

SPEAKERS

Eric Glazer
Hosted by
Eric Glazer
Executive Producer & Host, Bright Spots in Healthcare
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Dr.Powell
Dr. James Powell
CEO, Clinical Practice Group, DocGo
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Debra_Corbett
Debra Corbett
Vice President of Care Management Solutions
VNS-Health
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Tyler_Okoren
Tyler Okoren
Executive Director of Consumer & Employer Solutions
Senatra
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Kelly McCabe
Kelly McCabe
Director, Community Health Interventions & Research, Sinai Urban Health Institute
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Katie Westman
Katie Westman
System Director for Senior Health Services
Allina Health
Dr.Powell
Dr. James Powell
CEO, Clinical Practice Group, DocGo
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James R. Powell, M.D. is a board-certified internal medicine physician and healthcare executive who serves as CEO of the Clinical Practice Group at DocGo. He leads clinical strategy across the company’s bi-coastal locations and services, specializing in hybrid care, telemedicine, and Value-based services. Dr. Powell focuses on designing workflows and partnerships that improve access, outcomes, and the comprehensive wellness of underserved communities. 
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Debra Corbett
Vice President of Care Management Solutions
VNS-Health

Debra Corbett is the Vice President of Care Management Solutions for VNS Health. Debra has over 25 years of experience in health care quality and care management. Most recently she served as VP for Quality, Risk Adjustment and Care Coordination at CinqCare. Previously she served as the Director of Clinical Service Strategy for Senior Products at Tufts Health Plan, and as the Emblem Health Program Director for Beacon Health Options. Other related positions include serving as the AVP for Care Management and Quality at VillageCareMax. Since 2008, Debra has worked as an independent consultant enabling her to further broad her experience in the industry. She has a BA from St Michael’s College and her graduate studies were in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nebraska. Debra is a Certified Professional in Health Care Quality.
Tyler_Okoren
Tyler Okoren
Executive Director of Consumer & Employer Solutions
Senatra

Tyler is the Executive Director of Consumer & Employer Solutions at Sentara Healthcare, specializing in the space where digital transformation meets daily operations. A former Administrative Fellow and M&A Manager, Tyler brings a unique “business-meets-bedside” perspective to healthcare leadership. Over the past 10 years at Sentara, he has scaled virtual are programs from their infancy to a system-wide powerhouse generating over $20M in annual revenue with over 220K visits in 2025 across multiple specialties of care.

In 2025, Sentara’s employer service contracts grew by 20% while retaining every existing client. Additionally, we are in the process of reimaging our occ health operational model to better meet the evolving employer needs in the market.

When he isn’t refining virtual care strategies or employer care, you can find him baking, playing games with his wife and three kids, trying to surf, or trying to improve his serve on the Pickleball court.
Kelly McCabe
Kelly McCabe
Director, Community Health Interventions & Research, Sinai Urban Health Institute
Sinai_Chicago

Kelly McCabe joined SUHI in June 2020 and currently serves as Director of Community Health Interventions & Research, providing leadership for SUHI’s community health worker (CHW) interventions and research development, along with efforts to integrate and evaluate CHW interventions within Sinai Chicago (Sinai). She develops, designs, implements, and evaluates intervention research, focusing on integration into Sinai. As director, she leads grant writing and management, developing research and funding plans, data analysis, and dissemination activities.  She serves on the DePaul University/SUHI Advisory Committee and leads Sinai’s inaugural CHW Steering Committee. Kelly has over 20 years of experience in health equity work, public health grant management, and community-based research. Her experience includes designing, implementing, and evaluating research programs aimed at addressing health inequities in underserved communities. She brings considerable epidemiological skills to her work in analyzing health data to develop impactful and practical strategies.

Kelly has advanced public health strategies in a variety of settings including field locations in developing countries, state and local governmental entities, academia, and currently at SUHI. Prior to joining SUHI, Kelly worked at the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she directed federally funded clinical research studies testing and implementing an HIV intervention for African American women and their teenage daughters. She served as Co-Investigator on a pilot research study to expand the intervention to a younger cohort and was a Sub-Investigator on a randomized control trial in South Africa.

Kelly also has experience working at the Cook County Department of Public Health and the Louisiana Office of Public Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section. She has conducted outbreak investigations, led emergency preparedness exercises, and analyzed large amounts of surveillance data to develop and evaluate programmatic initiatives and disseminate information to a broad audience.

Most notably, her Peace Corps experience in Paraguay was formative and motivated her to pursue a career rooted in community health.

Education

M.S.P.H., Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology/Spanish language, Northwestern University

FEATURING

VNS-Health
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Docgo
Senatra
Allina Health
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Bright Spots in Healthcare

AGENDA

Eric Glazer Executive Producer & Host, Bright Spots in Healthcare

Introduction

Kelly McCabe Director, Community Health Interventions & Research, Sinai Chicago: Sinai Urban Health Institute

Inside Out – A Different Approach to Community Health Interventions

Debra Corbett VP, Care Management Solutions, VNS Health

The Modern Visiting Nurse Model

Dr. James R. Powell CEO, Clinical Practice Group, DocGo

Mobile Care & Community-Based Health Delivery

Tyler Okoren Executive Director, Consumer & Employer Solutions, Sentara

Scaling Home-Based Care Programs

Katie Westman Director of Clinical Programming, Continuing Care Service Line, Allina

Primary Care at Home: Transforming Outcomes for Complex Seniors

All panelists Moderated by Eric Glazer

Roundtable – From Idea to Action: Scaling Care Where Patients Are

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Kelly McCabe shared how Sinai Chicago, a large safety-net health system serving predominantly uninsured and Medicaid patients, has evolved its long-standing community health worker (CHW) model by embedding CHWs directly into clinical workflows. Rather than operating solely in the community, CHWs now work alongside care teams in the ED, inpatient units, behavioral health, oncology, and perinatal services, providing culturally concordant support, screening for social needs, and ensuring continuity from admission through post-discharge. Kelly emphasized that integrating CHWs within hospital walls has strengthened care coordination, improved staff buy-in, and surfaced patient needs that might otherwise go unaddressed, reinforcing CHWs as essential members of the care team, not an add-on. 

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“We want to ensure that there is a seamless continuum of care from the ED to inpatient admission, and then to post-discharge support.” 

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Kelly McCabe
Director, Community Health Interventions & Research 
VNS-Health

Debra Corbett shared how VNS Health, one of the country’s oldest and largest community-based health organizations, supports medically complex, predominantly geriatric members through a full continuum of care management, from transitions of care to long-term, palliative, and advanced illness support. She walked through the team-based model (nurses, NPs, social workers, pharmacists, care coordinators, 24/7 nurse line) and how VNS uses risk stratification and predictive algorithms to proactively identify members who may benefit from palliative care or hospice. The headline innovation: to solve NP shortages and low visit productivity, VNS created a “facilitated physical exam” model where trained medical assistants conduct in-home visits using a TytoCare kit while a nurse practitioner joins remotely`, allowing the same clinical coverage with more throughput, less travel, and expanded access in underserved areas. 

DebraCorbett

“We were able to solve the lack of capacity to address some underserved areas in New York State, and also to ensure health coverage and equity, in the areas served by VNS Health Plan and the VNS provider organization.”

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Debra Corbett
VP of Care Management Solutions
Docgo

Dr. James Powell shared how DocGo designs and delivers mobile and virtual care programs that actually work for hard-to-reach populations, especially Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and dual-eligible members who haven’t seen a provider in a year, drift in and out of care, or rely on the ED as their default. He walked through DocGo’s operating model as “bringing an office into the home,” combining in-home clinicians with remote providers and diagnostic tech to deliver acute, chronic, and preventive care in one coordinated workflow. A big emphasis of his talk was the human side: outreach that earns trust (down to scripts and postcards), a “triangle of care” that includes the patient, provider, and caregiver, and an exam experience built around warmth, soft skills, and clinical rigor, so patients feel safe letting care into their home and clinicians feel confident making decisions outside a traditional clinic. 

DrJamesPowell

“We want to think about the patient through what we call a triangle of care. We think about the patient, the provider, and the caregiver. So all our workflows, all our designs, all our documentation, all our education is conscious of all three of those people.”

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James R. Powell, M.D
CEO of the Clinical Practice Group
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Tyler Okoren shared how Sentara scaled virtual care by obsessing over one thing: making it simple and truly integrated into the way patients already access care. He discussed how even great tech fails if it’s too complex for real-world users, and used that lesson to showcase Sentara’s approach: define the purpose (for Sentara, it’s access), build a frictionless patient journey across every entry point (call center, nurse line, web, app), and invest heavily in the “after” (MA-led follow-up, referrals, medication questions) to make virtual care stick. He also walked through how Sentara uses virtual care strategically across models—from “Primary Care Lite” and hospital follow-ups to specialty programs—while balancing fee-for-service economics with value-based incentives like readmission reduction and ED avoidance. 

Tyler Okoren

“Regardless of how a patient starts their interaction with us, we are going to deeply integrate virtual care into that process, so that that call center agent, or that nurse, or that page on the website is simple to use and quickly navigates the patients to virtual care.”

Tyler Okoren
Tyler Okoren
Executive Director of Consumer & Employer Solutions
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Katie Westman shared how Allina Health built and scaled an in-home primary care model for the top 1–2% most complex, frail seniors still living in the community – patients for whom both clinic-based primary care and traditional virtual care simply don’t work. She framed the “why” in a very human way: the physical and cognitive burden of getting to a clinic becomes an access barrier in itself, and in-home care is often the only realistic path to truly coordinated care. Katie walked through how Allina’s CoCare program combines a full interdisciplinary team (MD/NP, triage, RN care coordination, social work, pharmacy, care guides) to stabilize patients early, simplify care plans around patient goals, and reduce unnecessary utilization over time. Her patient story of “Carl” brought the model to life, showing how trust, environmental insight, and practical fixes (equipment, meds, affordability) can rebuild a relationship with care and restore quality of life, alongside measurable outcomes like reduced ED/hospital use and sustained satisfaction. 

KatieWestman

“Brick and mortar primary care works really well for a broad population of people. Virtual care works very well for a broad population of people. Yet we know we have a concentration of complex, frail seniors for which both brick and mortar and virtual don’t work well, and we just physically need to be in their home.” 

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Katie Westman
System Director for Senior Health Services