Healthcare leaders are moving away from complex Hospital at Home programs and looking for sustainability in ambulatory care models. A recent survey backs up the claim that they weren’t finding the ROI they wanted.
A key barrier to the growth of acute care at home programs is sustainability. Healthcare leaders need to see positive ROI to maintain and scale the program.
As many healthcare organizations shift their strategy away from the CMS Acute Hospital Cate at Home (AHCaH) model that was supported by a now-defunct waiver, they’re looking at less complex programs, mainly in the ambulatory space, that take advantage of home health and, to some extent, digital health and virtual care.
"What we're seeing is the emergence is a new set of care," Ron Li, Medical Director of Digital Health and the Health Care at Home program at Stanford Health Care, said in a recent HealthLeaders story.
A recent survey of healthcare C-Suite executives by Sage Growth Partners backs up that uncertainty. While the benefits are measurable – some 67% said the program improved access to care, while 73% saw improved patient satisfaction, 67% said it reduced length of stay, another 67% said it helped reduce avoidable readmissions, and 53 % said it reduced hospital-acquired infections – ROI is fleeting.
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Eric Wicklund is the senior editor for technology at HealthLeaders.