Home Sweet Hospital

With their business models upended by the coronavirus, hospitals are dusting off a decades-old idea: hospitalize patients in their own homes.


Guests: 

Bruce Leff, MD, Director, The Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins

Travis Messina, MBA, Cofounder and CEO, Contessa

Kavita Patel, MD, MPH, Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Institution

Raphael Rakowski, Cofounder and CEO, Medically Home

David Zaas, MD, MBA, President, Duke Raleigh Hopsital


For more about hospital care at home: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/05/28/home-sweet-hospital/


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