Hospital-level acute care provided at home is not a new concept, and in parts of the world with single-payer healthcare systems, models have existed for decades. In the U.S., Johns Hopkins Medicine has pioneered the “hospital at home” model since the 1990s, but programs were still limited for decades after.
In 2020, as a response to the flood of patients into hospitals due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued waivers to support hospital-at-home acute care, opening the gates for hundreds of healthcare systems to implement such services.
Though the…
