Becker's Healthcare November 27, 2024
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health already has one of the largest hospital-at-home programs in the country. Now the health system is expanding into other home-care domains.
The four-hospital organization recently started offering subacute rehabilitation at home for patients who would otherwise go to skilled nursing facilities. UMass Memorial has also expanded hospital at home to post-op patients following cesarean sections and urological and colorectal procedures.
“We continue to have challenges with getting patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities in a timely way,” Eric Alper, MD, senior vice president and chief quality and clinical informatics officer of UMass Memorial Health, told Becker’s. “Local skilled nursing facilities are just overwhelmed, and they can’t handle the level of patients that we and others...
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