Becker's Healthcare May 6, 2024
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham now treats patients needing emergency or urgent care at home.
The health system’s patients can request referrals to the Home Hospital Emergency Care program through their primary care providers, who decide if patients are stable enough to be treated at home. If they are, a nurse talks to the provider and schedules a home visit, where a paramedic completes a physical exam joined virtually by an emergency medicine physician.
“There are many patients who are being seen in the ED when some other sort of care might be more appropriate,” said John Campbell, operations...
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