Becker's Healthcare March 11, 2025
Giles Bruce

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is taking a unique approach to home care to maneuver around state regulations.

The health system plans to launch advanced care at home May 1, serving up to 12 patients at a time. CMS has granted Stanford a hospital-at-home waiver but the state of California doesn’t allow for that care model.

“That’s not going to stop Stanford. We have to think about how we do it a different way,” Gretchen Brown, MSN, RN, vice president and chief nursing information officer of Stanford Health Care, told Becker’s at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas. “We’re going to drive this up to treat some pretty complex patients in the home.”

Because of the regulations Stanford can...

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