Background: “Hospital at Home” (HaH) models of care have existed for over 20 years in the U.S. Demand for healthcare value has driven renewed attention to HaH, including from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified consideration of alternative sites of care. Where studied, HaH models have had desirable [...]

Background: “Hospital at Home” (HaH) models of care have existed for over 20 years in the U.S. Demand for healthcare value, advances in relevant technologies, and the ongoing global pandemic have driven renewed attention to HaH models, by way of policy-based and academic pilot programs – and even commercialization attempts. Where studied, these models have [...]

Background: “Hospital at Home” (HaH) models of care have existed for over 20 years in the U.S. Recent demand for healthcare value, advances in relevant technologies, and the ongoing global pandemic have driven renewed attention to HaH models, including from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and have spawned several pilots within the [...]

Background: Interprofessional teamwork in healthcare organizations is crucial to the delivery of quality patient care. Efforts to improve teamwork on hospital medicine units commonly fail due to clinicians and other care team members (case managers and pharmacists) are responsible for patients scattered across numerous floors and units. UK HealthCare developed and implemented the Interprofessional Teamwork [...]

Background: “Hospital at Home” (HaH) models of care have existed for over 20 years in the U.S. More recently, HaH models have evolved to include transitional care solutions to improve patients’ post-acute outcomes. Meanwhile, services which were traditionally provided only in the inpatient setting, such as elective arthroplasty, have begun to shift to same-day and [...]

Background: “Hospital at Home” (HaH) models of care have existed for over 20 years in the U.S. Recent demand for healthcare value and advances in relevant technologies have driven renewed attention to HaH models, including from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and have spawned several pilots within the U.S. Where studied, these [...]

Background: The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has stressed patients, hospital systems, and society and, while treatment modalities are continuously evolving. A phase 3 clinical trial of monoclonal antibody infusion in appropriate patients with Casirivimab and Imbdevimab demonstrated a 70% reduction in hospitalization or all-cause death compared to placebo (ref 1). An emergency use authorization by [...]

Background: “Hospital at Home” (HaH) models of care have existed for over 20 years in the U.S. Demand for healthcare value has driven renewed attention to HaH, including from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified consideration of alternative sites of care. Where studied, HaH models have had desirable [...]