A partial government shutdown took effect Jan. 31 after Congress missed a midnight Jan. 30 deadline to pass a revised federal funding package — disrupting some health systems’ hospital-at-home ...

Four hospitals and health systems in 2025 have launched new hospital-at-home programs. The “hospital-at-home” model, in which patients receive acute, inpatient-level care in their own homes rather ...

A long list of healthcare stakeholders have signed a letter urging strong support for the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program in upcoming government funding decisions. Writing to Congress this ...

The hospital-at-home program has received bipartisan support in Congress. UMass Memorial Health has 20 patients in its hospital-at-home program. UMass Memorial Medical Center has treated 3,900 ...

The government shutdown is forcing some hospitals to withdraw from a Medicare program that allows seriously ill patients to be treated at home — leading some facilities to move patients back in, ...

Providers are once again watching a looming deadline at the end of the month when waivers that allow hospitals to deliver acute care in patients’ homes could lapse, creating administrative complexity ...