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The New Frontier of Healthcare: Bringing Hospital Care Home
From the hospital side, several factors are forcing providers to get creative. Census levels are high nationwide, often near full capacity and beyond. Staff rolls are shrinking as growing numbers of clinicians quit because of burnout or unmitigated stress. There’s not enough money to build new brick-and-mortar facilities. And then, lordy, there was the pandemic – many organizations had a crash course in virtual care, forced by restrictions on in-person encounters, full COVID caseloads and nearly instantaneous changes in reimbursement policy that enabled virtual care.And patients – well, they weren’t big fans of being in the hospital before. The pandemic opened their eyes to the possibility of virtual care, and nascent hospital-at-home programs revealed alternatives to traditional delivery of acute care services.
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Like many “new” trends in healthcare, the hospital at home movement is not new. The foundational research goes back nearly 30 years, to work by Bruce Leff, MD, of Johns Hopkins to flesh out the concept of providing acute-level care to patients in their own homes.As hospitals increasingly treat sicker and older patients, hospital at home programs represent a way to offload patient load from nursing staff, better apportioning patients to the most appropriate setting and enabling nurses to focus on the most needy patients.
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