NPR February 15, 2022
Dolores Wiese was recently hospitalized for a skin infection. But she wasn’t treated in a hospital. Instead, a care team paid regular visits to her living room in a retirement community in Phoenix.
“I like to be active. And to be tied down in bed in a hospital? No. I’ll take this any day,” Wiese said.
Wiese was one of the first patients in Arizona to receive hospital care at home through a program from the Denver-based provider DispatchHealth. Acute care at home programs can’t provide surgery or ICU-level care. But dozens of providers around the country say technology is now good enough that x-rays, bloodwork, and many treatments for non-life-threatening conditions can be handled on-the-go.
And since the start...
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