For seniors, receiving skilled care at home – instead of at a skilled nursing facility (SNF) – could have considerable benefits, including better patient experience and lower costs. That’s according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The study was conducted between August and September of 2019 and used a pilot trial […]
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“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.” The quote, a line from American horror author Stephen King, perfectly describes the situation in which hospital-at-home programs find themselves. As of Nov. 11, 83 health systems and 187 hospitals in 34 states were participating in the Acute […]
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was among the very first to secure an “Acute Hospital Care at Home” waiver from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in November. That shouldn’t be too surprising, considering Dr. David Levine, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is one of the biggest […]
Hospital-at-home patients are less often readmitted within a 30-day period after discharge than people who were treated in a traditional hospital, a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has found. As part of the study — led by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners HealthCare System — researchers conducted a randomized controlled […]
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