Becker's Healthcare December 20, 2024
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has doubled its hospital-at-home program over the past year, its leader told Becker’s.
The health system already has one of the oldest hospital-at-home offerings in the country, starting in 2015, before the CMS waiver that propelled many health systems to launch the care model. So Mount Sinai has learned to provide acute inpatient care at home in the face of regulatory uncertainties.
Mount Sinai’s hospital-at-home initiative has grown from an average daily census of 15 to 20 a year ago to 25 to 30 today. But the eight-hospital system might have been able to expand the program even more if not for one thing.
“The biggest barrier is not actually patients, but more...
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