As demand for acute care grows and capital budgets tighten, hospital-at-home is gaining traction — but few health systems have scaled it with both clinical rigor and financial return.
Hackensack Meridian Health is one of them. Its home-based care model delivers safe, hospital-level care to complex patients while relieving inpatient pressure and advancing system priorities.
Join Patrick Young, president of population health at Hackensack Meridian, and Pippa Shulman, DO, chief medical officer of DispatchHealth, for a candid look at how the system collaboratively designed, launched and scaled its program — and the outcomes it's delivering.
Insights include:
- The business case: How to build a financially sound model that expands capacity and supports ROI
- Clinical and operational design: Patient selection, escalation workflows and integration with ED and care teams
- Scaling and sustainability: Lessons in provider engagement, reimbursement strategy and long-term program growth
