Becker's Healthcare May 24, 2024
Hospital-at-home care is a big part of the strategy for boosting care quality at Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health, a C-suite leader told Becker’s.
The four-hospital system initially launched acute hospital care at home in 2021 to address bursting-at-the-seams capacity issues. But then UMass Memorial recognized other benefits from the care model.
“Being a hospitalist for my entire career, the light bulb moment for me was, ‘Geez, these patients really have better outcomes,'” said Eric Alper, MD, chief quality and clinical informatics officer of UMass Memorial Health. “It’s as good a tool for improving quality of care as any other tool we could possibly have for improving acute care-related harm. My personal bias is we ought to be doing everything...
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