Dr. Bruce Leff and Hospital at Home Program Featured in New York Times
Hartford grantee Dr. Bruce Leff of Johns Hopkins University and the Hospital at Home program was recently featured in The New York Times in an article on options for patients to receive care in a home rather than a hospital setting.
Hartford grantee Dr. Bruce Leff of Johns Hopkins University and the Hospital at Home program was recently featured in The New York Times in an article on options for patients to receive care in a home rather than a hospital setting. According to the article, under pressure to reduce costs while improving quality, some hospital systems have taken on an unusual experiment: offering hospital-level treatment at home to patients who in the past would have been routinely placed in a hospital room. And as awareness spreads of the dangers that hospitalization may pose, particularly to older adults, patients are enthusiastically seizing the opportunity.
Over nearly two decades, the John A. Hartford Foundation supported the Hospital at Home model, from its development at Johns Hopkins University, through multi-site testing, to early dissemination. In 2014, the Foundation made a grant to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in partnership with Johns Hopkins, to augment a federal evaluation of the Mobile Acute Care Team Services project, which is testing a version of the Hosptial at Home model.
To read more about this alternative for patients to receive care at home, head over to the New York Times website.