It was not too long ago when only a handful of U.S. health systems invested in hospital-at-home programs, with Mount Sinai and Johns Hopkins Medicine being two of the very early adopters.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, that has changed – in a big way. Hospital-at-home alternatives are becoming table stakes for many systems, with some of the most recent examples of that trend being Atrium Health’s partnership with Best Buy and Contessa’s joint venture with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. Sector titans such as Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente even went so far as to directly invest in hospital-at-home company Medically Home.
Now, new data from PA Consulting suggests this shift will continue long into the future, Home Health Care News reports. Read more.
