Care hotel model lowers costs, shortens hospital stays after smaller surgeries

Utilizing a “care resort” mannequin, which discharges sufferers to a specialty hospital resort after smaller surgical procedures, can decrease prices and shorten sufferers’ time within the hospital, in keeping with a research introduced right now on the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgical procedure’s (SNIS) twentieth Annual Assembly.

Rising well being care prices pose a major monetary burden throughout the U.S., particularly because the begin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers on the Mayo Clinic Florida lately tried a brand new method: transferring sufferers to a “care resort” after surgical procedure. Within the research, “The Security and Feasibility of a Care Resort Mannequin in Elective Neuroendovascular Interventions-;A Single Institutional Expertise,” Mayo Clinic researchers reviewed information for 78 sufferers who had been slated to have elective neuroendovascular interventions, together with aneurysms. Within the research, 42 sufferers had been enrolled and obtained same-day surgical procedure and had been discharged to a “care resort” as an alternative of being admitted to the hospital after their procedures.

Whereas staying on the “care resort,” sufferers had been monitored by nurses and had speedy entry to the on-campus hospital if wanted. All sufferers had been discharged dwelling the next day, apart from one particular person with lingering numbness who was hospitalized for 2 days. Based mostly on price saving calculations, this resulted in saving $1,500 to $2,600 per process. One hospital mattress was additionally saved for different potential sufferers who required hospitalization.

The research authors discovered this fast-track mannequin to be secure, possible, and cost-effective for certified sufferers.

Utilizing a care resort may also help fastidiously chosen sufferers scale back their time within the hospital after non-emergency procedures whereas sustaining high-quality care and outcomes. It is a promising mannequin, as they will save money and time whereas recovering in a extra snug place, and the hospitals can hold extra beds obtainable for emergency circumstances.”

Dr. Rabih Tawk, neurointerventional surgeon on the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida