A partnership between the Boston Medical Center and Commonwealth Care Alliance, a community-based health care organization, provides a promising new hospitalist model for inpatient treatment of complex care patients — patients with extensive, persistently expensive medical needs.
A New Hospitalist Model for Managing High-Cost, High-Need Patients
Can we improve how we treat the most-complex cases?
October 09, 2018
Summary.
A partnership between the Boston Medical Center and Commonwealth Care Alliance, a community-based health care organization, provides a promising new hospitalist model for inpatient treatment of complex care patients — patients with extensive, persistently expensive medical needs. Complex care patients typically have complicated medical histories, functional limitations or disabilities, numerous medications prescribed by multiple outpatient providers, and social drivers of illness. Providing hospital inpatient treatment for them is challenging. Conventional hospitalist and extensivist models have limitations. A new complex care model may be the solution.