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When Dr. Sean Drake was first introduced to the Henry Ford Care at Home program, he was working in a hospital clinic that had the goal of avoiding hospitalizations — making the hospital care at home program “a natural fit.”   In the clinic, “We were managing patients remotely using telemedicine,” he explains, which made the…

Dr. Sangsoo Kim serves as a hospitalist at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and as part of his duties, he is also regularly a provider with their Home Recovery Care program. The program offers hospital-level care to eligible patients in the comfort of their own homes, and Dr. Kim says he’s…

Gundersen Health System partnered with Contessa to deliver hospital-level care in the home as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of this approach to care. So, when Tom Luers, MD, joined Gundersen almost two years ago, the practice of hospitalists admitting patients to Gundersen Home Hospital was an expected and integral part of his role. …

Alyssa Bernstein, CRNP is an advanced practice provider (APP) and the clinical manager of the Home Recovery Care program at Allegheny Health Network’s Jefferson Hospital. When she graduated as a nurse practitioner in 2021, she was excited to join the innovative program. In her role, she is responsible for identifying patients who qualify for the…

Dr. Kamia Thakur is a hospitalist and the Medical Director of Penn State Health’s Home Recovery Care program in Hershey, PA. The joint venture with Contessa was launched in June of 2022. Dr. Thakur recalls her initial introduction to the concept when the health system recruited its physicians to help with the program. “I was…