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Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President of AARP Foundation, Bill Evans CEO and Managing Director of RockHealth, and the winner, DispatchHealth (Kevin Riddleberger, cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer, and Christine Greimann, Director of Market Development).
2017 Aging in Place $50K Challenge
DispatchHealth has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Aging in Place $50K Challenge, a startup competition for entrepreneurs with solutions that help vulnerable older adults remain in their homes and communities. The challenge focused on innovations that reduce unnecessary health care services, costs and hospital readmission rates while allowing older adults the opportunity to live independently in their homes. 2017 finalists were DispatchHealth, FRND Health, and RoundTrip.
DispatchHealth is a provider of mobile and virtual healthcare. They are working to redefine healthcare delivery by providing convenient and affordable on-demand acute care services in the home.
The 2017 Aging in Place $50K Challenge is part of AARP Foundation’s Innovation Prize, designed to seek out promising, effective, and scalable solutions and unlock new opportunities to help solve the problems so many low-income older adults face as they age.