The U.S. behavioral health care system is facing a capacity crisis. The country currently has 13% fewer state psychiatric beds than it did in 2010; in Massachusetts alone, more than 700 patients await inpatient psychiatric care every day. Many patients wait for psychiatric care in the emergency department, sometimes for days, delaying their treatment and… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Launches Behavioral Health Home Hospital Feasibility Initiative
Exploring if home-based psychiatric care may offer an alternative for inpatient psychiatric stays.
Dr. David Levine and the Ariadne Labs Home Hospital partnership with Appalachian Regional Healthcare to study home hospital in the rural setting is highlighted as part of the New York Times Magazine’s deep dive on the home hospital model.
Dr. David Levine in the New York Times on the Home Hospital model.
What is Ariadne Labs? Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) that works on bridging the gap between health care delivery, academic medicine, and public health. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the world’s top innovation… Continue reading Home Hospital International Fellowship FAQs
Program Overview The Home Hospital International Fellowship (HHIF) seeks to contribute to the advancement of hospital-level care at home internationally, by providing a space for current clinicians and researchers to further the field. Through the HHIF, scholars will join the Ariadne Labs community in person to conduct research, share experiences, build new partnerships, and actively advise and… Continue reading Home Hospital International Fellowship
How a new initiative applied the Scrum methodology to develop 20 tools in 40 weeksAround the world, hospitals are increasingly interested in establishing home hospital care programs that can expand a system’s capacity and provide measurable benefits to many patients. A 2020 study found that, compared to a typical hospital admission, home hospitalization reduced cost, health… Continue reading Accelerating Design, Test, and Spread for Home Hospital Innovations
Carolina (Carol) is a Senior Project Manager for the Home Hospital program at Ariadne Labs. She oversees a portfolio of projects that seek to improve, advance, and scale the adoption of home hospital initiatives nationally and internationally. Before joining Ariadne Labs, Carol served as Strategic Projects Planning Specialist for the President of Paraguay’s Delivery Unit,… Continue reading Carolina (Carol) Lucey
BOSTON, Aug. 2, 2022 – Ariadne Labs, in collaboration with CaroNova, a health innovation incubator for the Carolinas, recently concluded the first phase of the Home Hospital Early Adopters Accelerator to support health care systems to further develop their own home hospital programs. Through this 40-week program, a total of 91 representatives from 18 health… Continue reading Ariadne Labs and CaroNova Bring Together 18 Health Systems to Develop Tools to Accelerate Home Hospital