Yale New Haven Health has announced that it has now treated 1,000 patients through its Home Hospital Program.
The program, launched in 2022, offers “hospital-level care to patients in their homes, providing services for various acute conditions like heart failure, pneumonia, and sepsis.” Nana Boahemaa, head nurse of the Home Hospital Program, says that part of the reason behind creating the program was to “release some of the bottleneck in the [emergency department] and allow capacity for patients who are really sick and need the hospital bed.”
The program “serves patients within a 25-mile radius of Yale New Haven or Bridgeport hospitals. To achieve this, the health system partnered with Medically Home, a startup that facilitates hospital-level care at patients’ homes.”
The program was inaugurated after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created a waiver program in 2020 that “allowed for the delivery of acute, hospital-level care at home.” Carly Brown, the Yale New Haven program director, has said there have been “no serious safety events in a patient’s home,” and the program has demonstrated “similar, if not better, quality outcomes for patients.”
