Tuesday, October 13, 2015
John A. Hartford Foundation: 'Hospital at Home' Prevents Complications
For patients in need of the level of care and interventions given in an acute care setting, the hospital is often the only option. And while necessary to handle acute exacerbations of illnesses, hospital admissions can lead to the development of a host of other problems for patients.
"We all know that hospitals can be very dangerous places for older adults," says Amy Berman, BS, RN, senior program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation, a New York City–based private philanthropy working to improve the health of older Americans. "They commonly experience things like functional decline, complications, and other adverse events when they're inpatient," she says. . .