Linda DeCherrie, MD
Mount Sinai Health System was featured in a recent special report in The Wall Street Journal titled “What The Hospitals Of The Future Look Like,” which spotlighted Mount Sinai’s Hospital at Home program.
“For some admissions, we can avoid the emergency department, but for most admissions like pneumonia, dehydration or a skin infection, we evaluate them in the ED and then send them home in an ambulance with an IV in place,” Linda DeCherrie, MD, clinical director of the mobile acute care team of Mount Sinai’s Hospital at Home Program, tells the Journal.
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Mount Sinai’s Hospital at Home program has reduced the re-admission rate to the hospital, improved patient satisfaction outcomes, and cut the overall cost of delivering the care. Mount Sinai is working with Contessa Health.
The program is one of a number of initiatives Mount Sinai has launched focused on improving patient care.
“The goal is to care for each patient in the most appropriate setting, whether in a traditional hospital bed, an outpatient center or at home,” Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, tells the Journal.
You can learn more about Mount Sinai’s Hospital at Home Program by watching this video