The poll of 1,000 U.S. adults finds strong support among those who have used the program, with more than 80% saying they’d use it again. One of the more popular arguments for launching a hospital at ...
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 ...
Congress is looking to extend a Medicare program that pays hospitals to provide acute inpatient care in patients’ homes, even as questions remain about how that program impacts health outcomes and ...
Based on evidence that has emerged from the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver initiative, policy makers and health systems are waking up to the realization that well-supported family ...
The CMS model may be gone, but healthcare leaders are seeing value in other care programs that involve less heavy lifting and offer better reimbursement. The CMS Hospital at Home program may be dead – ...
This week, the House unanimously passed the bipartisan Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (HR4313), also known as the hospital-at-home bill. This bill, which was introduced by Republican ...
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 ...
A partial government shutdown took effect Jan. 31 after Congress missed a midnight Jan. 30 deadline to pass a revised federal funding package — disrupting some health systems’ hospital-at-home ...
While VCU Health’s hospital-at-home program did not meet its initial patient volume targets in its first year, it achieved strong success in terms of patient satisfaction, Julia Siegel Breton, MD, ...
Senior Friendship Centers highlights volunteer-powered initiative bringing care to isolated older adults ...