McKnight’s Senior Living January 8, 2024
(HealthDay News) — A diverse group of medically complex patients receive acute hospital care at home (AHCaH), with low rates of mortality during hospitalization and at 30 days, according to a research letter published online Jan. 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
David M. Levine, MD, MPH, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues report on the early national experience of the AHCaH waiver, issued in November 2020, creating a regulatory and payment pathway for hospitals to deliver AHCaH. A total of 5,132 patients with a medical diagnosis who received AHCaH between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, were identified, representing 5,551 admissions.
The researchers found that patients receiving AHCaH were medically...
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