Article: Hospital at Home 'Cheat Sheet' - 6 Qs on the Care Model, Answered
Becker's Hospital Review has published an article, "Hospital at Home 'Cheat Sheet': 6 Qs on the Care Model, Answered."
The article answers six questions on the hospital at home model, explaining what the model is, "providing hospital-level care to acutely ill older adults in the comfort of their own homes with the goal of fully substituting acute hospital care," and talking about it's origins dating back to 1995. The model is "the brainchild of John Burton, MD, former director of geriatric medicine and gerontology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, and Donna Regenstreif, PhD, a former leader at The John A. Hartford Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving care of older adults."
The author describes how the model works, what the benefits are and what systems have mastered the hospital at home model. Lastly, the article talks about readiness, "Johns Hopkins outlines six questions health systems should ask before implementing such a model:
- Is your health system experiencing problems from a lack of hospital capacity?
- Does your health system have established home healthcare delivery capabilities?
- Do you have physicians with the interest and ability to care for patients in the home environment?
- Does your health system experience a large volume of Medicare admissions for common problems such as community-acquired pneumonia, heart failure or chronic pulmonary disease?
- Does your institution view itself as an innovator in developing and implementing new models or systems of care?
- Can your health system align payment, providers and the hospital for this model?"
To read the article, click here.
To learn more about Hospital at Home, click here.
To learn about JAHF's support of the model, click here.
