Sachin H. Jain: Rethinking healthcare at home

Sachin H. Jain posted on LinkedIn:

“For years, I’ve been a fervent advocate for moving more care to the home. In a previous role leading CareMore Health, I presided over what was then one of the largest hospital-at-home programs in the country and launched home-based primary care in several markets.

At SCAN, I’ve led the creation of home-based primary care and chronic disease companies.

And yet, the experience of seeing my father age with multiple chronic illnesses gave me new insight into how home-based care programs often play out in reality and has caused me to reflect on my advocacy for them.

As my family learned, in-home care programs often place unrealistic burdens on patients’ families, requiring them to perform tasks for which they have no training, and do little to reduce costs.

It’s time for the healthcare industry to balance the march toward widespread implementation of these programs with strong regulatory, performance and selection standards that ensure the patients who access care in this manner receive treatment on a level equal to or greater than what they would get in a clinical setting.

Read more of my perspective in Modern Healthcare.”

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Source: Sachin H. Jain/LinkedIn

Sachin H. Jain is the President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as a Board Member at The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, an Academic Hospitalist (WOC) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and a Board Member at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). He is also a board member of Omada Health.