MedStar Extends Acute Care at Home to Baltimore

MedStar Health announced Monday that its acute care at home is now available to Baltimore patients of its Franklin Square Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Harbor and Union Memorial hospitals. Through the collaboration, Dispatch Health offers prescheduled home visits daily, including weekends and holidays, following discharge from emergency departments and inpatient hospital units – typically within 72 hours – MedStar said.The service gives patients of MedStar's Baltimore facilities a "seamless, monitored transition" home, according to Dr. Ethan Booker, MedStar's chief medical officer for telehealth. Dispatch has already provided more than 700 at-home patient visits in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Booker said in the announcement. The extended collaboration brings Dispatch's in-home care to Baltimore for the first time, added Dr. Phil Mitchell, the company's chief medical officer.