Medicare hospital at home patients had to be discharged or relocated to a hospital Oct. 1. (Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus) When the government entered a ...
"One day, hospitals will just be ERs, intensive care units and operating rooms. Everyone else will be treated at home." So predicted Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Bruce Leff, sometimes referred to as ...
A long list of healthcare stakeholders have signed a letter urging strong support for the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program in upcoming government funding decisions. Writing to Congress this ...
The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously voted on legislation to continue acute hospital care at home, a program supported by the American Hospital Association and numerous other provider ...
The House of Representatives unanimously voted to pass a bill Monday that extends the Medicare hospital at home program for five years. Hospital at home providers have been mired in uncertainty for ...
The hospital-at-home program has received bipartisan support in Congress. UMass Memorial Health has 20 patients in its hospital-at-home program. UMass Memorial Medical Center has treated 3,900 ...
New research published this month shows that hospital-at-home models do a good job of lowering costs and improving patient outcomes in rural communities. The study, conducted by researchers at Mass ...