Home Health Care News June 14, 2022
Advocates of the hospital-at-home model are continuing to make a strong push for the extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver.
Specifically, hospitals that have taken advantage of the waiver are saying it needs to stick around because it is actively driving both patient and provider satisfaction.
“One of the focuses of [the Mayo Clinic’s] 2030 plan is ‘the patient will see you now,’” Dr. Michael Maniaci, the medical director of the Mayo Clinic’s Advanced Care at Home program, said on a webinar hosted by the Advanced Care at Home Coalition and McDermott+Consulting last week. “This is focused on individualized medical expertise at the patient’s convenience – not at the institution’s convenience. We’ve tried to flip the script...