Establishes a hospital to home partnership program to promote institutional diversion and increase hospital discharge rates to home and.
The bill establishes a Hospital to Home Partnership Program within the executive office of health and human services. The program aims to foster partnerships between acute-care hospitals and aging services access points, or ASAPs, and to enhance communication and coordination with community providers. It mandates that each participating hospital must have at least one ASAP staff member serving as a home and community-based services hospital liaison. The goal is to promote institutional diversion and increase discharge rates from hospitals to home and community-based settings.
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