Posted May 10, 2023
More critically complex patients are being referred to home-based care providers than ever before. Providers are working to ensure that they are in a position to deliver the appropriate level of care to these patients. This has been trending upward for years, but the pandemic brought it to the forefront sooner than expected.
“Over the last three years, starting with COVID and transferring out of that, we’ve seen patients come to us that are certainly more clinically complex,” Blake Nelson, director of home health care at Hamilton Health Care System, told Home Health Care News. “We saw a need to come alongside the hospital when it came to throughput. When COVID patients were coming to the ED and then being admitted and staying at the hospital for 5,6,7 weeks, we saw a need for us to stand in the gap.”
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