The Hospital of the Future: Intermountain Expands In-Home Care Offering

Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare is delving deeper into the home with its latest offering: hospital-level in-home care. 

Intermountain is a health system with 24 hospitals, a medical group with about 160 clinics and its own health insurance plan, among other services. The not-for-profit announced a concerted effort to move more care into the home last year, when it rolled out Intermountain at Home.

The coronavirus has accelerated the movement of that program.

Up until now, most of Intermountain at Home’s services were in the primary care and palliative care realms. However, the COVID-19 emergency inspired Intermountain to roll out