Becker's Healthcare January 8, 2025
Mass General Brigham plans to expand its hospital-at-home program to more specialties in 2025 and evolve beyond episodic care toward a “seamless home-based care continuum,” a program leader told Becker’s.
The Somerville, Mass.-based health system already has one of the largest home hospital initiatives in the country, treating an average of 50 to 60 people with inpatient-level care at home per day. In 2025, Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home expects to care for more postoperative patients and also more people overall after — or, better yet, before — they require acute care.
“So being able to take a patient with heart failure, for example, and for future episodes we’ll preferentially enroll you in home hospital and keep your equipment...