mHealth Intelligence January 10, 2024
A new study reveals that hospital-at-home programs established under the CMS waiver have low mortality and skilled nursing facility use rates.
New research from Mass General Brigham affirms the clinical benefits of hospital-at-home programs, showing that they are associated with low mortality, skilled nursing facility use, and readmission rates at one month following discharge.
The researchers published a letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine detailing the clinical outcomes associated with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, launched in November 2020. The waiver lifts certain Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation, such as requiring nursing services to be provided on premises 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This allows approved hospitals...
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