Home Health Care News December 22, 2023
The hospital-at-home model can help alleviate caregiver stress, and that could be one of the model’s main selling points moving forward.
The evidence behind that is from a new DispatchHealth case study, which explored caregiver fatigue within the hospital-at-home model by asking, “Does this innovative care model alleviate or exacerbate caregiver stress?”
The results were encouraging, Kevin Riddleberger – the co-founder and chief strategy officer of DispatchHealth – told Home Health Care News.
“When we got our data, it made a lot of sense, because caregivers are very comfortable with their surroundings,” Riddleberger said. “They had great access to their loved one. They were always able to communicate with our clinicians, our teams, the nurses, the NPS and PAs. There...