What’s more convenient than providing safe, high quality health care close to home? Providing that level of care at home.
North Carolina's hospitals and health systems provide high-quality, acute-level care so eligible patients who are sick but stable can recover from illness in their homes – a more comfortable and affordable setting than in a hospital. Care at home is particularly helpful to patients who live in rural areas, where traveling to a hospital can be difficult.
In Rocky Mount, another type of in-home care is offered for some high-risk patients after a hospital stay. The Community Paramedic Program offered through Nash UNC Health Care provides wellness visits at home, once a week for four weeks, to monitor and support patients’ recovery and to help prevent the need for hospital readmissions.
The Transitions in Care program at Novant Health Pender Medical Center in Burgaw provides telehealth services for congestive heart failure patients, helping them manage their conditions and symptoms at home.
Through CaroNova, an initiative of the North Carolina Healthcare Foundation, eight North Carolina hospitals worked together on the Home Hospital Early Adopters Accelerator. The program created resources that has led to North Carolina having more home hospital programs than any other state and has influenced national legislation.