In the past, innovation in healthcare in the acute setting was heavily focused on improvements in procedural interventions or critical care. Recently, however, there has been a shift and developing ...

UR Medicine has launched a new program called Hospital at Home to help ease the overcrowding crisis in local emergency rooms.

Hospital-level care at home was gaining traction even before the COVID pandemic, and for good reason: A study published in December 2019 in Annals of Internal Medicine showed that hospitalization at ...

The Hospital-at-Home (HaH) model under Medicare lets patients receive hospital-level care at home instead of a traditional, brick-and-mortar hospital. But when the waiver funding the program expired ...

Atrium Health’s Levine Children's Hospital has launched the first Hospital at Home program in the country that focuses on children and their families. Few would argue that the hospital is no place for ...

A framework centered around cost, quality, and equity is essential to define the value of hospital-at-home programs. On November 25, 2020, CMS announced the creation of an Acute Hospital Care at Home ...

Many postoperative readmissions are amenable to diversion to a hospital at home program for surgical patients, representing an opportunity to generate revenue and improve patient experience.

Several health systems are relaunching hospital at home after Medicare reimbursement for the care model was restored with the deal to reopen the federal government. More than half of hospital-at-home ...

During one of our (Zain’s) last year of medical school, I took care of a 70-year-old woman who was admitted for a mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation. She was requiring slightly ...

A while back, Robert Diegelmann completed a 10-day hospital visit — in the comfort of his home. The 81-year-old was being treated for a recurring infection at VCU Medical Center’s brick-and-mortar ...

A.M. THERE IS OFFICIALLY ONE FEWER OPTION TO FIND HEALTH CARE IN BREVARD COUNTY. LAST NIGHT, ROCKLEDGE HOSPITAL OFFICIALLY CLOSED ITS DOORS. WHILE THAT COULD CREATE A GAP FOR SOME, ANOTHER HEALTH CARE ...

Delirium is a type of confusion that develops suddenly—over the course of hours or days—and most commonly affects older adults who are hospitalized or in a long-term care facility. “We refer to ...