Becker's Healthcare December 7, 2023
Once patients get a taste of being cared for at home, will they ever want to go back to the hospital?
“Would you give up Amazon tomorrow and just go back to department stores?” Michael Maniaci, MD, physician lead for Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic’s hospital-at-home program, told Becker’s. “The genie’s out of the box.”
Hospital-at-home care has grown exponentially in recent years, enabled by technological advances and regulatory changes, allowing acute-care patients to be treated in the comfort of their homes alongside pets and loved ones.
But which health systems are leading the way in this care model? And what will it take for it to reach its full potential?
Becker’s reached out to leaders of the largest hospital-at-home programs...