“Hospital at Home” Growing
The concept of treating “hospitalized” patients at home could play a more prominent role in the delivery of hospital services in the coming years. Hospital at home programs have been around for decades but took on greater importance when COVID-19 began filling hospital beds. With many communities experiencing a shortage of beds, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued an “acute hospital care at home waiver” in November of 2020 to help compensate for the bed shortage and encourage home programs. Now that the COVID crisis has passed, health care interests are not necessarily moving away from the idea [...]