HealthLeaders Media August 13, 2024
Mass General Brigham is using a state grant to test a hospital at home model for patients in need of skilled nursing facility services.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Almost 2,000 patients in Massachusetts are waiting, some of them for months, to be discharged from hospitals into skilled nursing facilities.
– Mass General Brigham has received a $4.7 million grant from the commonwealth to test a hospital at home model for SNF care, and will compare the home-based model for 150 patients against another 150 patients in traditional SNF care.
– MGB is one of the leaders in the hospital at home movement, which took off during the pandemic as a means of reducing overcrowding in hospitals and giving some patients a...
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