Sachin H. Jain: Among the most heralded emerging care models is the “hospital-at-home” model
Sachin H. Jain, President and CEO at SCAN Group and Health Plan, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Among the most heralded emerging care models is the “hospital-at-home” model, which aims to move management of low-acuity hospital patients to home-based settings.
On its face, hospital-at-home aims to solves multiple problems at once:
1) addressing diminishing hospital inpatient bed capacity in the face of an aging population;
2) patient and caregiver frustration with the lack of convenience of inpatient settings; and
3) more robust postepisode management of acutely ill patients.
Having led one of the largest early hospital-at-home programs, I have been an early and persistent supporter of the transition of care from hospital to home.
That said, my optimism has been tempered somewhat with observations from the real-world implementation of hospital-at-home models in traditional fee-for-service health care environments.
I share these observations in a new column in Journals of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) Journals called “Au Contraire.”
Thanks to Tariq Ahmad for the opportunity to share my perspective.”
Source: Sachin H. Jain/LinkedIn
Sachin 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 & 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).