Becker's Healthcare June 6, 2023
On a recent day, Mary Conrad showed off the hospital inside her Illinois home: a touchscreen tablet, an IV pole, a box of medical supplies.
Her daughter, Valerie Conrad, a 36-year-old with Down syndrome, sat on a couch nearby. Her living room served as her hospital room. Nurses monitored Valerie’s cellulitis 24-7 from a digital command center a dozen miles away.
“I love it. I love it,” Mary Conrad told Becker’s of the hospital-at-home program from Peoria-based OSF HealthCare. “For one thing, Valerie is afraid to be in the hospital after having COVID two years ago. … And the nurses are taking care of her. I don’t have to do much taking care of her, except being a mother.”
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