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Hospital at Home and Transforming US Health Care Delivery

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.4791

April 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses how programs from the COVID-19 pandemic, including Acute Hospital Care at Home, have created the infrastructure to widely deliver hospital at home care, which could transform US health care delivery in the future.

Corresponding Author: Bruce Leff, MD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Mason F. Lord Building, 5200 Eastern Ave, 7th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21224 (bleff@jhmi.edu).

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