Home Health Care News July 11, 2023
U.S.-based hospital-at-home advocates regularly point abroad to make the case for the model’s adoption domestically.
In other developed countries, hospital-at-home models tend to be far more common than they are in the U.S.
With this in mind, providers and policymakers may need to look further at those counterparts across the globe to expand hospital at home adoption.
Michael Montalto, the director of hospital in the home at Epworth Hospital – which operates in Australia – believes that cultural change needs to take shape, even ahead of policy advancements.
“Policymakers can change their minds, funders can change their minds, but if you start to become encultured into the hospital, then that really has a very sticky kind of personality to it,”...