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3 Strategies for Scaling Hospital at Home — from Leaders Who've Done It
A major study published this spring in JAMA Network Open analyzed outcomes for nearly 16,000 Medicare beneficiaries and found that hospital-at-home patients had dramatically lower in-hospital mortality — 0.4% compared to 3.6% for traditional inpatients — along with fewer ED visits within 30 days, lower rates of ICU escalation and hospital-associated complications, and lower post-discharge costs.
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Hospital-at-home programs deliver dramatically lower mortality (0.4% vs. 3.6%) and half the readmission rates, but success hinges on change management—not technology. Build multidisciplinary teams around the problem (capacity, outcomes), not the program; use early adopters and outcomes data to convert skeptics, and treat technology as enabling infrastructure, not the strategy itself.
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