{"id":7245,"date":"2025-09-30T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/hospital-at-home-program-winds-down-medicare-waiver-expires\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:00:07","slug":"hospital-at-home-program-winds-down-medicare-waiver-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/hospital-at-home-program-winds-down-medicare-waiver-expires\/","title":{"rendered":"Home hospital programs in \u2018terror\u2019 as they grind to halt ahead of government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home hospital programs in \u2018terror\u2019 as they grind to halt ahead of government shutdown
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On any given day, dozens of patients waiting for hospital rooms line the hallways of the emergency department at UMass Memorial Medical Center\u2019s University Campus. It\u2019s one reason the Worcester-based health system dove into delivering home hospital care four years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But on Saturday, UMass Memorial stopped admitting patients into its hospital at home program as leaders anticipated lawmakers in Washington may not hit a Tuesday deadline to reauthorize the program. The health system cares for about 20 patients per day in its home hospital, and losing the beds will put additional strain on its overcrowded facilities.<\/p>\n

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Home hospital programs in \u2018terror\u2019 as they grind to halt ahead of government shutdown On any given day, dozens of patients waiting for hospital rooms line the hallways of the emergency department at UMass Memorial Medical Center\u2019s University Campus. It\u2019s one reason the Worcester-based health system dove into delivering home hospital care four years ago.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2157,1428,2212,2215,2313,2144],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health","category-hospitals","category-medicare","category-patients","category-politics","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}