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How Providers Are Maximizing Hybrid Care and Home-Based Interventions

How Providers Are Maximizing Hybrid Care and Home-Based Interventions

Kate Baars

Executive Director, Product
Development, Virtual Care &
Digital Health, Providence

Kate is an experienced product leader focused on improving healthcare access and experience, and accelerating strategic initiatives related to virtual care across the Providence enterprise. Kate oversees a virtual services portfolio spanning the acuity spectrum, including ambulatory services delivered to the home, inpatient Hospital at Home, and acute telehealth programs delivered in the hospital setting. She is honored to advance programs that meaningfully improve the care experience, and to build partnerships that enable clinicians to better support their patients and each other.

John Broach, MD, MPH, MBA, FACEP

Director, Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine,
Department of Emergency
Medicine, UMass Memorial
Medical Center

Dr. Broach attended undergraduate and medical school, as well as receiving his MPH from Northwestern University in Chicago before his emergency medicine residency training at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Broach completed the UMaSs DM fellowship. He serves on several hospital-wide disaster preparedness committees, as well as being a member of the Massachusetts DMAT-MA2. Dr. Broach has been instrumental in preparing UMass for emerging infectious diseases such as H1N1 and Ebola.

Christina Nelson

Strategic Partnership
Manager, TytoCare

With over two decades of experience in healthcare sales, account management, and relationship-building, Tina has worked at leading healthcare companies, including Omada Health and One Call, where she gained expertise in driving growth and ensuring client success. She leverages this experience to support TytoCare’s mission in the rapidly evolving digital health space.

Drawing on her rural Kansas background, Tina deeply understands the unique challenges faced by underserved communities, and she is passionate about advocating for solutions that improve access to care and address healthcare disparities.

Tina resides in Atlanta and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Kansas State University.

Jennie Van Antwerp, MSN, RN

Director, Digital Acute Care/
Digital Care Division,
OSF OnCall, OSF HealthCare

Jennie Van Antwerp serves as the director of Digital Acute Care for OSF On Call, the digital health arm of Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare – an integrated health system with 16 hospitals and 159 locations for medical, specialty, home and hospice care.

Jennie has been in her current role with OSF OnCall, digital health arm of Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare – an integrated health system with 16 hospitals and 159 locations for medical, specialty, home and hospice care since 2022.

She served two years as director of OSF Contact Center Clinical Operations. In her current position, Jennie oversees the OSF OnCall Digital Hospital program and other acute care at-home and remote patient monitoring efforts.

Jennie describes herself as a nurses’ nurse and a patient advocate with experience in both hospital and ambulatory settings. She is driven by a passion for leadership mentoring and coaching.

As someone who embraces collaboration, Jennie works with executive leadership to drive the OSF OnCall digital acute care agenda, including engaging Mission Partners in the process, educating them about new efforts and ensuring competency at all levels of care.

Jennie received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Illinois State University’s Mennonite College of Nursing and completed her master’s degree in Nursing at the University of Illinois Chicago.

How Providers Are Maximizing Hybrid Care and Home-Based Interventions

In today’s fast-paced world, flexibility is key—especially in healthcare. The hybrid model, which combines in-person visits and virtual care, enhances the overall experience by offering more care options, including follow-ups, routine check-ins and consultations. For healthcare providers, it enables better remote monitoring of conditions, helping catch potential problems early, reducing complications, and even preventing unnecessary emergency visits. Our expert panel will explore how virtual care enhances care access, reduces costs, and addresses healthcare challenges like staff shortages.

Kate Baars

Executive Director, Product
Development, Virtual Care &
Digital Health, Providence

John Broach, MD, MPH, MBA, FACEP

Director, Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine,
Department of Emergency
Medicine, UMass Memorial
Medical Center

Christina Nelson

Strategic Partnership
Manager, TytoCare

Jennie Van Antwerp, MSN, RN

Director, Digital Acute Care/
Digital Care Division,
OSF OnCall, OSF HealthCare

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