Hospital at Home and Transforming US Health Care Delivery

Bruce Leff; Albert Siu; Linda V DeCherrie; David M Levine

doi:10.1001/jama.2026.4791

Hospital at Home and Transforming US Health Care Delivery

JAMA. 2026 May 26;335(20):1747-1748. doi: 10.1001/jama.2026.4791.

Authors

Bruce Leff¹, Albert Siu^{2

3}, Linda V DeCherrie⁴, David M Levine^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
³ James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
⁴ DispatchHealth, Denver, Colorado.
⁵ Division of General Internal Medicine & Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 42024407
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.4791

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses how programs from the COVID-19 pandemic, including Acute Hospital Care at Home, have created the infrastructure to widely deliver hospital at home care, which could transform US health care delivery in the future.