Deciding between at-home care and hospital care for a loved one with a significant illness or chronic condition can be a pivotal choice for families. Both settings offer unique advantages and cater to ...

A Kaiser Permanente patient receives hospital-level care at home. In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in ...

During surges of Covid-19, providing hospital-level care in the home was a good alternative to receiving care in hospitals strained by historic staffing shortages and populated by people infected with ...

Following several major healthcare organizations expanding into advanced home-based care, Philadelphia-based Sena Health will help deliver the Salem Acute Care at Home for patients of Salem, New ...

Hospital-at-home programs gained significant traction during the COVID-19 era, spurred by CMS’ 2020 waiver program to ease hospital capacity. What began as an emergency measure has since evolved into ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — For many of us, a hospital can be a scary and intimidating place. So there’s a new push among health care providers to let eligible patients recover, outside of the hospital.

Across the United States, healthcare systems and hospitals face extraordinary pressure to provide affordable care. As 2022 and 2023 progressed after the pandemic, hospital leaders faced an opaque ...

Eury Holliday went to the emergency room at Health First's Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne in 2021, expecting a wait and, possibly, a hospital stay. The 83-year-old Palm Bay man has ...

For the past four years, Chad Semling has coped with serious illness, including chronic infections, a weakened liver and a damaged heart. He became a regular visitor at his local hospital in Eau ...

Sanford Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems in rural America, could advance the hospital-at-home movement when it launches its first acute home care program in North Dakota next spring.

Hospital programs providing at-home acute care are widely appreciated by patients and clinicians but still don’t have a bulletproof argument in respect to quality and costs as compared to a ...