Expanding access to hospital care at home
Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic announce investment in Medically Home to enable more patients to receive acute-level care in the comfort of their homes. 5/13/21
ROCHESTER, Minn., and OAKLAND, Calif. ― Kaiser Permanente and Mayo Clinic are partnering in an unprecedented collaboration to allow more patients to receive acute level of care and recovery services in the comfort, convenience and safety of their homes.
Beginning with significant strategic investments in Medically Home Group, a Boston-based, technology-enabled services company, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente seek to expand access to this unique model and encourage health systems and care providers to adopt it. By building capacity to meet rapidly increasing demand while addressing regulatory and legislative barriers, the partnership will allow more patients across the United States to safely receive high-quality acute and restorative care in their homes.
Medically Home’s one-of-a-kind technology and services platform enables providers to address a significant range of clinical conditions at the higher end of the clinical acuity spectrum that are typically treated in traditional hospital settings, safely in a patient’s home. This includes routine infections and chronic disease exacerbation, emergency medicine, cancer care, acute level of COVID-19 care, and transfusions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, use of this model helped combat patient isolation and loneliness, allowing family members to be at the patient’s bedside at home, while helping hospitals balance the increased demands for hospital beds.
Key features of Medically Home’s virtual and physical care delivery model include a 24/7 medical command center staffed by an array of clinicians and an integrated care team in the community who deliver care to patients at their bedside. This turnkey, purpose-built care delivery chassis that integrates with the patient’s electronic health record, provides elements that include:
- Required protocols for high-acuity care in the home.
- Rapid response logistics systems and providers of care in the home.
- Integrated communication, monitoring and safety system technology in the home.
- The necessary software platform, the Cesia® Continuum, for orchestrating high-acuity care in patients’ homes.
One of the demonstrated positive results is that patients hospitalized using the Medically Home model have a lower need for recurring hospitalization at 30 and 90 days following a care episode.
