Clinician burnout? Switch them to at-home care

January 1, 1970

Hospital-at-home advocates often highlight how the care modality improves the patient experience and allows hospitals to better manage capacity. There are other key benefits — such as protecting patients from hospital-acquired infections and improving caregiver’s job satisfaction — that should be brought into the conversation as well, hospital executives say.

Providers and lawmakers are pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend its waiver program for acute hospital care at home. Amid this effort, they are often quick to say the care modality improves the patient experience and allows hospitals to better manage capacity so they can ensure beds are available for the sickest patients.

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