Here are four health systems that launched or have announced plans to create a hospital-at-home program since Sept. 21:
- Dallas-based Parkland Health has launched its Hospital at Home program. The program enables patients to access hospital-level care in the comfort of their homes from physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses and other members of the care team.
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic partnered with virtual care company Memora Health to launch a research program that allows providers to care for postpartum patients from their homes. Mayo Clinic will use Memora's artificial intelligence-based digitized care programs that will allow its postpartum care teams to interact with new mothers from the comfort of their homes and respond to their needs with tailored guidance in real time.
- Minneapolis-based Allina Health has launched hospital-at-home company Inbound Health with a $20 million investment. The spinoff firm will offer acute- or skilled-nursing care in the home through such services as in-home nursing and therapy, virtual visits with hospitalists and geriatricians, and biometric monitoring.
- Orlando Health received approval from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration to provide acute hospital-level care in adult patients' homes. The new program, called Orlando Health Hospital Care at Home, will kick off in February and will care for patients with a variety of illnesses such as cellulitis, COPD, asthma, UTI, heart failure, COVID-19, pneumonia and gastroenteritis.