Hospital at Home Model Featured in Kaiser Health News, USA Today, Health Affairs
Hospital at Home, a John A. Hartford Foundation-funded model that provides home-based hospital-level care to older adults with certain illnesses, was recently featured in a Kaiser Health News, USA Today, Forbes, and US News, as well as in Health Affairs, a leading health policy journal. The June 2012 Health Affairs article can be read in its entirety here and describes how the model achieves equal or better outcomes as regular hospital care—but with 19 percent lower costs. The article is a part of a Health Affairs themed issue, "Focus On The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled," which received funding support from the SCAN Foundation.
Hospital at Home, a John A. Hartford Foundation-funded model that provides home-based hospital-level care to older adults with certain illnesses, was recently featured in a Kaiser Health News, USA Today, Forbes, and US News, as well as in Health Affairs, a leading health policy journal.
The June 2012 Health Affairs article can be read in its entirety here and describes how the model achieves equal or better outcomes as regular hospital care—but with 19 percent lower costs. The article is a part of a Health Affairs themed issue, "Focus On The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled," which received funding support from the SCAN Foundation.
Hospital at Home was developed with Hartford funding in the 1990's at Johns Hopkins University. A subsequent $1.6 million, six-year grant starting in 2005 further tested and disseminated the model.
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