WSJ: What the Hospitals of the Future Look Like
The Wall Street Journal article, "What the Hospitals of the Future Look Like" discusses innovative programs helping patients receive hospital-level care at home, with a particular focus on the Hospital-at-Home model.
"Bruce Leff, a geriatrician and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [and John A. Hartford Foundation grantee] predicts, “Hospitals will start to evolve into large intensive-care units, where you go to get highly specialized, highly technical or serious critical care”.....Studies by Dr. Leff and others show hospital-level care at home for certain conditions can be provided for 30% to 50% less than inpatient care with fewer complications, lower mortality rates and higher patient satisfaction."
"New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital has developed a hospital-at-home program, HaH-plus, for some patients who show up at the emergency department or are referred by their primary-care doctors....The HaH-plus program provides 30 days of care, including referring patients back to primary-care doctors and connecting them to services they need to avoid readmission."
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To learn more about Hospital-at-Home, click here.
The John A. Hartford Foundation has supported the early development of the Hospital-at-Home model and is currently funding work at Mount Sinai in New York to help spread the model to more sites.
