The “Better Way to Live” program combines hospital and post-acute care providers to develop a new transition path, targeted interventions and services for “alternate level of care” patients, or patients who are no longer acutely ill but cannot live on their own due to medical, mental health and social challenges.
The pilot has already successfully transitioned more than 60 ALC patients — some who were hospitalized for months or even a year — into long-term care beds in the public health system’s post-acute care facilities. Once NYC Health + Hospitals expands the pilot across the whole system, the program is expected to save the organization more than $3.5 million a year.
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