SSM Health and Inbound Health, a provider of in-home, advanced care programs for health systems, announced a partnership to bring personalized, in-home, post-hospital health care services to patients.
The first phase of this collaboration will begin at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital–Madison this week with the launch of a new SSM Health at Home program — Recovery Care at Home. Hospitalized patients who meet certain criteria will have the option to be discharged and receive services traditionally offered in a skilled nursing facility within their own homes.
Patients eligible for the new program will receive daily in-home and virtual visits from a team of specially-trained physicians, nurses, therapists, and other clinicians. Each patient will receive a digital tablet to be used during the program to provide remote monitoring and round-the-clock assistance from the care team.
A care coordinator will arrange for all of the patient’s care visits. The program brings into the patient’s home the same equipment and services typically offered in a hospital or nursing home setting, including home infusion services, laboratory and imaging services, and medical equipment.
The program also will help to alleviate capacity issues challenging area hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, according to Kyle Nondorf, vice president for Acute Care at SSM Health in Wisconsin.
SSM Health and Inbound Health plan to expand their partnership to extend the Recovery Care at Home program as well as a Hospital at Home program to eligible patients at additional SSM Health hospitals across the Midwest later this year.
