Creating capacity across continuum by implementing in-home acute and transitional care models that improve health system throughput and patient flow.
Explore four expert-recommended ways to improve hospital at home programs, boosting adoption and care quality across ...
New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes. Editor's note: ...
Acute-level care at home is another innovation driven by the pandemic, though the concept is not new. As hospitals needed to free up beds and CMS loosened restrictions, health systems set up programs ...
As the use of post-hospital care has moved away from institutions and toward the home, more older adults are receiving help for activities of daily living (ADLs) at home after discharge, a new study ...
Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, ...
While most home hospital programs have so far been implemented in urban areas, a rural home hospital model, or RHH, has successfully delivered hospital-level care to patients living in rural areas ...
Post-acute care is the process of enabling functional recovery, following an acute or inpatient admission. Many settings can be used to support post-acute care, including skilled nursing and ...
In November 2020, in response to COVID-19 pandemic-related hospital capacity concerns, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promulgated the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver (the ...
For many physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists, acute care once seemed the height of ...