Orlando Health on Monday announced that it has been approved by the Florida Health Care Administration to begin providing hospital-grade acute care in the homes of adult patients.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The health system is planning to launch its Hospital Care At Home initiative in February and make it available to specific patients who meet certain clinical criteria set forth by the emergency department and determined by hospital staff.
Conditions such as cellulitis, COPD, asthma, UTIs, heart failure, COVID-19, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis are among those that can be safely treated in a home program.
Orlando Health’s plan is the first in Central Florida to be approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of the federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to expand its reach. hospital resources.
Patient Care at Home will use connected telemedicine and health monitoring tools that will connect patients to the Orlando Health Patient Center for 24/7 virtual care by nurses and providers, in addition to the daily in-person nursing check-in.
The health system says it is looking for acute care nurses who may want to learn more and will host a virtual recruiting event, November 15 and 16 from noon-4pm
TREND TO BIGGER
With the impressive achievements of quality and cost-effectiveness by early pioneers such as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente, an increasing number of hospitals and health systems are launching care plans in home for both acute and chronic conditions, some tailored to specific clinical use cases.
In recent weeks, Nuvance Health has announced the development of a home memory care platform. Memora Health has announced an ongoing partnership with the Mayo Clinic on a virtual home postpartum care initiative. And the Allina Health spinoff Inbound Health announced its plans to help other providers develop models of acute care at home and models of skilled nursing.
President of the Mayo Clinic Platform, Dr. John Halamka has said that he sees a future of healthcare based on “virtualized centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. This will be the emergency department for the patients. heart attack or stroke An ICU tower right next door will take care of the sickest people who can’t get home health care… But beyond that? All that emergency care, and all Even simple things?
Here are some tips on how the health system should prepare now for the future of home hospitals.
Check out our interview from earlier this year with Orlando Health’s CIO, Novlet Palmer Mattis.
ON PROFILE
Dr Jamal Hakim, chief executive officer at Orlando Health, said: “Hospital care at home presents another option for Orlando Health patients to receive high quality care in an enabling environment. best for their recovery.” “Patients with certain acute conditions can be treated from the comfort of their homes with the same level of care and supervision they would receive within the walls of our hospital.”
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