Patients who receive hospital care at home generally have lower mortality rates than their brick-and-mortar inpatient counterparts, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report on ...

It’s usually good news when the doctor says you or a loved one can come home from the hospital. Sometimes, though, it’s a mixed blessing. Hospital discharge sometimes means that further hospital ...

Medicare currently pays for Hospital at Home using a top-down (hospital-centered) payment—the payment is made to hospitals, and the amount is based on Medicare’s payment system for acute inpatient ...

Based on evidence that has emerged from the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) waiver initiative, policy makers and health systems are waking up to the realization that well-supported family ...

Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care ...

Angela Haupt has been a health writer and editor for more than a decade. She was previously the managing editor of health at U.S. News & World Report, where she spent 11 years covering and editing ...

The sun’s not up yet, and my chest feels tight. Sitting up in bed, the room slides briefly out of focus. I attempt a deep breath… Sharp needles pierce deep into my chest. The cough I downplayed ...

Choice Health at Home has announced that it acquired three companies: Cy-Fair Health Care, Alliant Home Health, Palliative ...

The Florida-based IDN has cared for almost 240 patients at home, instead of in the hospital, since launching the program, and expects to expand the platform to give more patients that option. Health ...

ACME Home Care provides in-home support services--including companion care, personal care, respite care, and post-surgery recovery--across Mesa, Phoenix, Fountain Hills, and Scottsdale. The company is ...