The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strains on our healthcare system. Given capacity limitations during the initial crisis and continuing into another season of increasing infection rates, there is tremendous pressure to keep high-risk patients out of acute care settings. At the same time, disease outbreaks and visitor restrictions at skilled nursing facilities create barriers to placement. Home-based medical care is a powerful modality to address these challenges as discussed in this article published last month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Links: JAGS (3/2021) (article is available open access on Medscape with free registration)
