The Network
A hospital-at-home program shouldn't require going it alone.
The fixed costs are what break small programs: vendor minimums, contracts, and compliance overhead all priced for volume you don't have yet. Those costs are nearly identical whether you run four patients or forty. None of this requires your neighbours to join — membership is contracts and data, not geography, so it works from the day you sign.
Shared purchasing
One negotiated contract instead of ten vendor minimums.
Remote monitoring, DME, mobile imaging, couriers, home pharmacy — every one of them prices for volume, and every one of them sets a floor. A small program can spend on the order of $180,000 a year clearing minimums it never comes close to using. The network negotiates one formulary across all members: the minimums are absorbed by the pool, and unit pricing lands well below what a single community hospital gets quoted.
- One formulary covering monitoring, DME, mobile imaging, couriers, and home pharmacy
- Vendor minimums absorbed across the pool instead of paid alone
- 15–25% below standalone unit pricing
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Benchmarks and standards
Know whether your numbers are good, or just normal.
Published hospital-at-home outcomes come almost entirely from large academic centers, which tells a ninety-bed hospital very little. Members see their census funnel conversion, length of stay, escalation rate, and patient-acceptance rate against the network — and against members of comparable size and payer mix. The standards those are measured against are ones our team helped write.
- Funnel conversion, length of stay, escalation, and acceptance rates, benchmarked
- Compared against members of similar size and payer mix
- Measured against standards our team helped author
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Shared intelligence
The platform gets better with every hospital that joins.
Every alert a nurse dismisses teaches false-alarm suppression. Every referral outcome sharpens eligibility scoring. Every accept and decline improves how enrollment gets explained to the next family. That learning pools across the network while patient data does not: PHI stays inside each hospital's tenant and models improve federated. Member forty gets a better product because of members one through thirty-nine — and one through thirty-nine get better because of member forty.
- Alert dismissals train false-alarm suppression
- Referral and enrollment outcomes train eligibility and consent
- PHI never leaves your tenant — models improve federated
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Also included
The rest of what you get.
Compliance library and audit defense
Waiver applications, CMS reporting templates, policy documents, survey preparation. Written once by people who have done it, filed by every member. The regulatory overhead of hospital-at-home is largely fixed — which makes it exactly the kind of cost a pool should carry.
Payer conversations, standardized
A health plan will not build a hospital-at-home product around one 200-bed hospital, and one 200-bed hospital cannot start that conversation. The network gives members a standardized product definition and a common quality data package, so plans see consistent, monitored capacity rather than a dozen bespoke pilots. Each member negotiates its own rates.
Vendor and trials channel
Device manufacturers and trial sponsors pay for access to a standardized, instrumented network. Members get early access to equipment, and a share of recruitment revenue when they choose to participate. This one only exists because the membership exists — it is the part no hospital could build alone at any budget.