“At-home hospital-level care is growing fast, home care execs say,” by Joe Jancsurak, McKnight’s Senior Living

 

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“Robust Medicare reimbursements for house calls and nonmedical services, and the need for hospital beds due to COVID-19 are driving increases in Medicare Hospital at Home programs nationwide. Given the expansion of such programs, home caregivers need to recognize and promote the importance of their roles.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

So much for the debate over whether to send recovering hospital patients home or to a nursing facility. Who needs hospitals or nursing homes in the first place? Just do everything in the home? What about economies of scale and quality control? Count me dubious.