Building Your Dream Team: Strategies for Staffing Your Hospital at Home Program

Recruiting and deploying the right kinds of people to effectively oversee, deliver, and evaluate care is critical to any hospital at home program. The special nature of the hospital at home model requires staff with a high degree of independence for working outside of the brick-and-mortar hospital, flexibility in the face of ambiguity, and attentiveness to patient needs. As such, not all clinicians are fit for delivering home-based acute care. Questions about utilizing providers and services from external vendors also must be addressed strategically in any hospital at home program.