Hackensack Meridian Well being, New Jersey’s largest well being community, plans to broaden its hospital at dwelling program to all 18 hospitals throughout the well being system.
The acute hospital at dwelling program was created beneath the Medicare CMS waiver in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and has since been granted an extension, though extension of this system past this yr would require extra motion by Congress.
“Hospital From House” launched in late April 2024 in partnership with Medically House after a 2022 pilot at JFK College Medical Heart. This system has handled virtually 100 sufferers because it started in late April.
Hackensack College Medical Heart and Jersey Shore College Medical Heart, together with JFK College Medical Heart, are at present taking part in this system, which the community plans to broaden to all hospitals throughout the well being system.
Via Hospital From House, sufferers are monitored nearly by means of a clinically built-in, physician-led digital command heart, which operates 24 hours a day to make sure seamless affected person care alongside in-person nurse visits. Providers and coverings embody IV antibiotics, infusions, remedy administration, laboratory providers, bodily, occupational, speech and respiratory remedy and imaging in a affected person’s dwelling. Meals and dietary consultations are additionally accessible.
“At Hackensack Meridian Well being, we’re proud to ship the subsequent technology of care,” stated Patrick R. Younger, president of inhabitants well being, in a press release. “This can be a entire new healthcare expertise for sufferers and their caregivers that can ship higher medical outcomes and affected person satisfaction.”
Medically House is collaborating with Hackensack Meridian as an working accomplice, offering command heart providers, logistics, and expertise wanted to ship hospital-level care within the dwelling.
