Continuing the Hospital at Home authority as an ongoing, reliable and effective option for care is critical for extending hospitals’ inpatient capacity, alleviating strain on limited inpatient beds, and mitigating the need for resource-intensive and lengthy construction of additional brick-and-mortar units and facilities. Permanent authorization of the program is needed to end cyclical program risk of expiration and care disruptions.

Ongoing uncertainty sows distrust and skepticism about the program, which undermines our long-term goal of having a clinically and cost-effective alternative to brick-and-mortar inpatient hospitalization.

In a rapidly growing county like Harris County, we need additional inpatient capacity today, and Hospital at Home is an essential care capacity extender.

Hospital at Home is a proven care option that should have its place as an ongoing, permanent, and reliable component of our health care system.

On any given day, we might have 50+ patients in our emergency department waiting for an inpatient bed to become available. With Hospital at Home, we have a proven, safe, and effective means of immediately extending our inpatient capacity.

What better place to take care of patients than in their own home. We know what their social support looks like, what their diet and routines are, what challenges their physical environment might present, and we can plan around those for post-discharge success. We’re empowering patients, optimizing efficiencies, reducing cost, and getting better outcomes.