Hospital at Home
What was once a small but mighty contingent of health care systems providing 鈥渉ospital-at-home鈥 care before the pandemic has grown into a larger movement. With this model, hospitals across the country are 鈥渁dmitting鈥 patients to their own homes for acute care with excellent results.
With hospital-at-home programs gaining momentum during the pandemic, some of the largest providers in this space are joining forces to push for expanding the way home-based services are financed. Amazon Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension and several home-based health companies recently鈥
The hospital-at-home model is expanding concepts of where and how acute medical care can be delivered. Hospitals can 鈥渁dmit鈥 qualified patients into their homes, where they receive acute, hospital-level care through a combination of telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and in-person visits.
In this fourth webinar in a series from AHA, the Hospital at Home Users Group and American Academy of Home Care Medicine, panelists will examine best practices for organizing and managing services and staffing needed for the at-home delivery of high-quality acute care.
In this third webinar in a series from AHA, the Hospital at Home Users Group and American Academy of Home Care Medicine, panelists will discuss technology decisions that hospital-at-home programs must make and how they will affect program efficacy and patient care.
Because of their existing Hospitalization at Home program, Mount Sinai was able to quickly start a new program, Completing Hospitalization at Home, to focus on non-COVID-19 patients and expanded to include low- to medium-acuity COVID-19 patients once adequate personal protective equipment was鈥
Presbyterian Healthcare Services found that treating patients at home helps prevent the onset of delirium, reduces fall risk, reduces the risk of infection and allows for increased mobility.
In this second webinar in a series from AHA, the Hospital at Home Users Group and American Academy of Home Care Medicine, panelists will discuss how to develop patient selection criteria for recipients of home-based acute care.
Sixty percent of health care organizations will invest in virtual care technology in 2021, according to a recent BDO survey of health care chief financial officers. Responding to this growing demand, tech companies large and small have been working feverishly on devices for the home that can help鈥
The hospital-at-home model continues to emerge as a promising approach to improve value for some patients, enabling the receipt of acute-level care in their homes.