The emergency department (ED) is the hospital’s front door, providing over 70% of all hospital admissions. How can home-based care providers partner with EDs?
One example is Penn Medical which piloted an at-home discharge service to shorten hospital stays and prevent hospital readmissions by providing emergency department patients with support at home. The Path program (Practical Alternative to Hospitalization) offers ED clinicians an outpatient care pathway for patients initially designated for inpatient admission or observation to prevent rehospitalization by providing home-based patient support after emergency care. According to a study published in Healthcare, Penn Medicine successfully prevented hospital readmissions in nine out of 10 emergency department patients.
The PATH program conducted a 14-day trial for the service in December 2019. The program cut emergency department wait times by an average of 8 hours for enrollees. PATH enrollees also had hospital stays two days shorter, on average.
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