Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs With Patient Wishes

Health providers are increasingly seeing Hospital at Home as a way of relieving the burden on hospital beds while meeting the patient’s wish of being discharged as soon as possible. 

But here is the dilemma – recovery times for procedures have not reduced dramatically in the last few years. Therefore, the idea of patients being able to be discharged from treatment sooner becomes irrelevant, as they will still need the same level of treatment and monitoring. The obvious question here is how can we solve a seemingly impossible situation – how to release patients earlier from a hospital but maintain the same or improved levels of care at home? 

So how can Hospital at Home be implemented to deliver benefits to both healthcare provider and health care receiver?