Healing at Home: Pandemic Lessons and the Future of Home Care

For the first time ever, Medicare started reimbursing for “hospital-at-home” in late 2020, leading hundreds of hospitals to sign up to deliver care in their patients’ homes. It’s part of a pandemic-fueled movement to push more care beyond the four walls of the hospital or clinic.  Join Tradeoffs for a virtual event that brings together administrators, clinicians, insurers, regulators, patients, and others with direct experience in at-home care (Is that you? See below for how you can join the conversation). We’ll share what we’ve learned about hospital at home from the past two years and what it tells us about the future of home-based care across the continuum — from hospital at home to long-term care to primary care.

Host and moderator:

Dan Gorenstein, Founder and Executive Editor of Tradeoffs.

Featured guests:

Bruce Leff, MD, Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research at Johns Hopkins
Mona Siddiqui, MD, MPH, MSE, Senior Vice President for Clinical Operations, Humana Home Solutions
Melanie Mercurio, Caregiver and spouse of Hospital at Home patient
April J. Odom, MSN, APRN-FPA, CRRN, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner

You:

This event will be different from the usual panel discussion in that we will make space throughout the conversation for people with direct experiences with at-home care to share what they’ve learned. If that’s you, please answer these two questions, and we might feature you in the event.

Tradeoffs coverage of issues facing older Americans is supported in part by The SCAN Foundation — advancing a coordinated and easily navigated system of high-quality services for older adults that preserve dignity and independence.