Becker's Healthcare March 27, 2024
To truly scale “hospital at home,” its leaders should take a page from hospitalists, a similarly disruptive care model that grew exponentially, two physician leaders wrote in Health Affairs.
Hospital-at-home physicians also need a catchy name, a la hospitalists, the authors said in the March 26 article. How about “home hospitalists”?
“Like hospitalists, HaH providers must define the specific clinical and operational competencies of a home-based site-defined generalist specialist,” wrote Robert Zimbroff, MD, associate medical director of San Francisco-based UCSF Health’s Care at Home program, and Robert Wachter, MD, professor and chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “They would be helped by naming their physician workforce and buttressing the arguments for this being...
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