Tag: Alex Hoopes
Hospital-at-home: Ensure integrity of supplies
June 12, 2024Alex Hoopes
Q. How are hospital-at-home supply chain logistics different than in brick-and-mortar health care?
A. In a traditional hospital setting, large trucks make deliveries to facility loading docks on routine schedules. These products are then stored all over the hospital in patient rooms and storage closets. If a patient needs a product and it is not already in the hospital room, a nurse can easily walk down the hall to a supply closet to get what they need.
With hospital-at-home...
Hospital-at-home: Ensure supplies fulfillment
May 8, 2024Alex Hoopes
Q. What does a hospital-at-home program need to succeed?
A. Hospital-at-home is one of the most effective care models I’ve seen to achieve the triple-aim of helping improve patient outcomes and patient experience while decreasing costs. At least one study in 2020 has shown that hospital-at-home costs are less than costs accumulated for patients in a traditional setting.
While we’re on an exciting horizon for home-based health care, for hospital-at-home to succeed...