Dead Or Alive?

“The report of my death has been grossly exaggerated,” goes a quote historians and literary scholars attribute to Mark Twain. The adage sprang to mind when I read the recent research, which predicts that rapid growth of hospital-at-home programs will occur within a few years. It was just a few months ago that the future of these programs was in doubt.

The hospital-at-home care model enables consumers who need acute-level care to receive care in their homes, rather than in a hospital (see Issue Brief: Creating Value by Bringing Hospital Care Home The Value Initiative . . .