Home Health Care News July 6, 2022
The hospital-at-home movement has been a striking trend in the home-based care space over the last few years, but it hasn’t been driven by home-based care providers.
Health systems and hospitals have been the ones benefiting from increased access to patients’ homes, sometimes partnering with home health or home care providers — and sometimes not.
There are those who want to change that, however, believing that centering hospital-at-home models around home-based care providers is the best way forward. A bottom-up approach – where the model would start with community-based organizations, instead of health systems – would be more practical from a patient and reimbursement perspective, they believe.
“First and foremost, [the bottom-up approach] expands who can actually provide this type...