Becker's Healthcare August 2, 2023
Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health plans to roll out “hospital at home” at 10 hospitals, with the first program launching later in August.
“Massachusetts is capacity constrained in probably most of our acute care hospitals. And that’s not just our health system,” Sue Stempek, vice president of hospital at home for Beth Israel Lahey Health, told Becker’s. “Also, the quality metrics that are being demonstrated in the literature for patients that can be served in this model are very clear.”
Beth Israel Lahey Health is partnering with hospital-at-home company Medically Home on the program, which will allow acute-care patients to be treated at home for such conditions as COPD, congestive heart failure, urinary tract infections, cellulitis, and respiratory infections...
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