Hospital-Level Care at Home: A Viable Option

For decades, healthcare leaders have recognized the immense potential of hospital-level care at home. However, systemic barriers have largely kept this vision from becoming a reality. Today, a confluence of factors has aligned to finally make this long-sought goal achievable.A significant factor driving this shift is the development, validation, and commercialization of hospital-at-home models. Leading health systems now recognize the opportunity to improve patient care options while managing pre-existing capacity constraints. These issues were already evident before the pandemic, but COVID-19 served as a catalyst, exposing the limitations of the U.S. healthcare infrastructure during a public health crisis of unprecedented scale. Concurrently, societal comfort with remote services grew, driven by the widespread adoption of virtual platforms such as Zoom, normalizing the concept of receiving traditionally in-person services from home.