Abstract
Hospital in the Home (HITH) model of care was developed to support the COVID-19 response and the need to deliver care in new ways to ensure secondary care services were free to deliver care to the sickest patients and not be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 patients needing hospital-level care. Intermediate Care Services, led by nursing and allied health stepped up to the challenge and collaborated on the development of the HITH model of care with defined pathways. This provided hospital-level acute health services in the home that was a clinically safe alternative option to inpatient care. The establishment of HITH released bed capacity and resources and therefore prevented the need for expanding hospital inpatient capacity at a time where resources and staff were constrained. Care delivery was achieved by utilising both in-person visits and telehealth. Technology supported the care delivery which allowed patients, whanau (family) and clinicians to be connected.
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