Becker's Healthcare November 11, 2024
St. Louis-based SSM has launched a hospital-at-home program in Wisconsin.
SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison started offering acute hospital care at home for patients with such conditions as heart failure in November.
“It is consistent with our DNA to try to figure out how to provide patient care where our patients would like to receive care, and try to do it in a cost or in a setting that is making sure we create value for our health plan,” Kyle Nondorf, vice president for acute care at SSM Health in Wisconsin, told Becker’s.
The program can treat up to five patients and expects to admit four to five people a month. SSM Health plans to expand the initiative...
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