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69. Home Sweet … Hospital?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Rationality of Hospital at Home

There is a really big proportion of patients that we don't serve well because they are homebound. A lot of folks many years ago said we need to deliver these patients all their care in their home. There's a very clear rationale for why you would need to take someone who was sick and keep them in the hospital. Home hospital offers a system the ability to create capacity without building brick and mortar beds.

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