CLEVELAND — The Federal Communications Commission is helping MetroHealth hospital system to expand their 'Hospital at Home' program in a big way.
“Hospital at Home allows us to care for patients where they are most comfortable, and that is at home surrounded by family," said MetroHealth Senior Vice President and Population Health Officer Nabil Chehade, MD.
The money will be used to purchase 300 new remote patient monitoring kits, which include essential items such as tablets for patients and providers, webcams and headsets, blood pressure cuffs, pulse oximeters and more.
"We are grateful to the FCC for its support of MetroHealth and the Hospital at Home program, which we believe is the future of medicine,” said MetroHealth President and CEO Akram Boutros, MD, FACHE. “This will allow us to greatly expand the program that we recently implemented to provide great care to our patients in the comfort of their own homes.”
The kits come at a vital time for the healthcare industry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and give MetroHealth the unique ability to monitor patients from the comfort of their own home.