Among rural patients transferred home within the first three days of hospital care, hospital-level care at home was associated with 27% lower costs compared with traditional brick-and-mortar care. In ...
The government shutdown is forcing some hospitals to withdraw from a Medicare program that allows seriously ill patients to be treated at home — leading some facilities to move patients back in, ...
Hospital-at-home (HaH) care was associated with lower in-hospital mortality and reduced emergency department use within 30 ...
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Executives from three health systems taking part in this week's The Winning Edge webinar say the strategy is reducing hospitalizations and costs, improving outcomes and scoring very high in patient ...
Providers are once again watching a looming deadline at the end of the month when waivers that allow hospitals to deliver acute care in patients’ homes could lapse, creating administrative complexity ...
The hospital-at-home program has received bipartisan support in Congress. UMass Memorial Health has 20 patients in its hospital-at-home program. UMass Memorial Medical Center has treated 3,900 ...
CHARLESTON — Sitting in her living room, surrounded by colorful paintings on the walls and reading from a journal on her lap, 80-year-old Renee Kahn calmly recounts a harrowing journey of severe ...
Virtua registered nurse Rachel Schlichtmann checks in remotely with a patient in Virtua Health’s Hospital at Home program. (Virtua Health) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...
TGH at Home offers hospital level care in the comfort of patients' homes. "TGH at Home is a true model of innovation, integrating high-tech applications such as remote patient monitoring and ...