Home Health Care News May 30, 2022
The traditional brick-and-mortar hospital system is broken, often leaving patients in a condition that’s worse than when they first arrived.
That’s according to a May report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). The findings throw further support for facility-based care alternatives, including the types of hospital-at-home models that lean heavily on home health and home care agencies.
“Given the scale and persistence of patient harm in hospitals in the decade since our last report, HHS leadership and agencies must work with urgency to reduce patient harm in hospitals,” stated the report.
As part of their work, OIG investigators examined medical records for a random sample of 770 Medicare patients discharged from acute...
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