Back to the Future: Providing Acute Hospital-Level Care at Home

Soumya Rangarajan, M.D., M.P.P., discusses the history and evidence of hospital-level care at home, and the post-acute care programs offered by Michigan Medicine. This talk was given at the Michigan Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds on April 22, 2022. It answers the following questions:

- Who is being hospitalized?
- Risks of hospitalization in the elderly
- Why hospitals became the norm
- Origins of Hospital at Home
- Randomized Controlled trial
- Barriers to Hospital at Home
- The Impact of COVID-19
- Requirements for CMS Waiver
- The Michigan Medicine Experience
- Success Stories
- Patient Monitoring at Home
- Care at Home Team