Becker's Healthcare March 31, 2023
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center spent $2 million to build its own hospital-at-home program in six months, caring for nearly 750 patients in the first year-plus, Tradeoffs reported.
UMass Memorial launched the program in February 2021, hiring new staff and contracting with vendors for in-home services like meals, X-rays and internet, according to the March 23 story. Rather than hiring an outside firm, the hospital developed the initiative itself.
“If a nurse is walking between room A and room B in the middle of the winter, that nurse is not thinking to him or herself, ‘Oh, gosh, I need a four-wheel drive vehicle,’ whereas we do think about that,” program medical director Constantinos Michaelidis, MD,...
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