Chief Healthcare Executive March 23, 2023
The Pennsylvania system began offering acute care services at home more than two years ago. Vipul Bhatia of WellSpan talks about the factors in the program’s success.
More health systems have launched hospital-at-home programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, but WellSpan Health began its plans before the arrival of the coronavirus.
In fact, the pandemic forced WellSpan to delay its launch of the home hospital program. WellSpan, based in central Pennsylvania, initially hoped to begin offering acute care services to patients at home in the spring of 2020, but the upheaval of COVID-19 forced a pause until September 2020.
WellSpan planned carefully and reached out to the handful of health systems operating hospital-at-home systems at the time, says Vipul Bhatia,...
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