Hospital systems facing chronically full wards are expanding a once-experimental answer: treating selected acute patients in their own homes, with daily clinician visits and continuous remote monitoring.
The programs, which began as pandemic-era pilots, now operate at meaningful scale in several systems. Internal data reported by administrators show readmission rates comparable to inpatient care for eligible conditions, with patient-satisfaction scores that inpatient units rarely match.
The safest bed for the right patient is sometimes the one they already own.
A chief medical officer