Healthcare Finance News October 28, 2021
The benefits, both economically and for the patient, have worked so well that hospitals are pursuing the model beyond the pandemic.
Hospital at Home, a trademarked name of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been in practice in that health system’s hospitals since at least 2002. The concept is not new, but, like telehealth, at-home hospital-level services became a necessity for all health systems when acute-care beds filled during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“A lot of hospitals were at capacity,” said Mark Larson, principal of Sg2, a consulting and analytics firm and Vizient subsidiary.
Hospital at home became a concept that found itself in the right place at the right time, he said. Hospitals saw that hospital at...
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