Jennifer Parello

Director of Content, AHA Center for Health Innovation

Jennifer Parello is the director of Content at the AHA Center for Health Innovation.

Articles

AHA Center for Health Innovation, Hospital at Home

3 Strategies for Scaling Hospital at Home — from Leaders Who've Done It

A major study published this spring in JAMA Network Open analyzed outcomes for nearly 16,000 Medicare beneficiaries and found that hospital-at-home patients had dramatically lower in-hospital mortality — 0.4% compared to 3.6% for traditional inpatients — along with fewer ED visits within 30 days, lower rates of ICU escalation and hospital-associated complications, and lower post-discharge costs.