6-18-12: Delivering Hospital-Quality Care at Home

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When is it possible to get hospital-level treatment…at home?  A professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins has developed a model of care that allows doctors to visit patients in their homes—as opposed to treating them in the hospital.  It’s called, no suprise, “Hospital at Home.”

The model was tested in a yearlong study by a health care system in Albuquerque, New Mexico., and results of that study were published in this months’ issue of the journal Health Affairs.  Sheilah talks with the professor who developed the model, Dr. Bruce Leff, and with one of the doctors who participated in the study in New Mexico.  Melanie Van Amsterdam is a doctor of internal medicine. She isthe lead physician for the “Hospital at Home” program offered by Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque. 

Kaiser Health News also described the program in a recent article.