Hospital at Home
AHA expresses support the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (S. 3792).
The hospital at home model of care is emerging as an important strategy to improve value during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Service lines continue to be interrupted by COVID-19, with no end in sight. The health care workforce is stressed out and stretched thinly amid the so-called Great Resignation wave. Care delivery increasingly is being moved from hospitals to outpatient facilities and the home, thanks in part to an…
With the effects of COVID-19 expected to continue for some time, providers can expect many of the trends that developed over the past two years to continue. Care delivered in alternative settings to hospitals, for example, is expected to increase considerably before the decade closes.
If there is a silver lining in the pandemic, it’s that it rapidly accelerated hospital-at-home programs. HaH programs can sharply reduce costs while maintaining quality and safety levels and lowering readmissions with improved patient experience.
What was once a small but mighty contingent of health care systems providing “hospital-at-home” care before the pandemic has grown into a larger movement. With this model, hospitals across the country are “admitting” 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…
The hospital-at-home model is expanding concepts of where and how acute medical care can be delivered. Hospitals can “admit” 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.