{"id":6924,"date":"2025-10-24T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:23:16","slug":"thousands-of-seniors-lose-access-to-hospital-at-home-program-due-to-federal-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/thousands-of-seniors-lose-access-to-hospital-at-home-program-due-to-federal-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Seniors Lose Access to Hospital-at-Home Program Due to Federal Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1430\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seniors-losing-access-to-hospital-at-home-program.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seniors-losing-access-to-hospital-at-home-program.webp 1430w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seniors-losing-access-to-hospital-at-home-program-300x154.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seniors-losing-access-to-hospital-at-home-program-1024x525.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/seniors-losing-access-to-hospital-at-home-program-768x394.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s official: the current federal shutdown is now the second longest in modern U.S. history. Every day, it seems, we hear of some new fright because of lapses in federal funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of these scary things is affecting seniors who\u2019ve chosen to age in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Association of REALTORS\u00ae (NAR) reports that a lapse in funding for medical care has uprooted ailing seniors. Acute Hospital Care at Home, from Medicare, has been interrupted at 320 hospitals nationwide. Thousands of vulnerable seniors now wait in limbo. Some of the seniors who were receiving in-home care under hospital supervision have been pushed back to packed hospitals \u2014 just in time for flu season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Covid-Era Program That Became a Lifeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hospital-supervised, at-home healthcare programs are well known in other countries. In the United States, Acute Hospital Care at Home was adopted when the pandemic created overflows at hospitals, but never placed on a solid financial base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past five years, more than 300 hospitals in 37 states have started up Acute Hospital Care at Home programs. To make this work, the U.S. government reimbursed medical sites for the extra work they carried out when monitoring older adults remotely. Because other patients could use the beds, enabling thousands of seniors to recover at home was a win-win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soon, hospital-overseen home care became part of the raft of services that makes aging in place a real possibility for elders with health challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program\u2019s means of funding ran out in 2023. It received multiple extensions in funding bills. But the current federal shutdown pushed all of this off the rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impacts have reverberated throughout a whole system of home-based care support. Inbound Health, which provides staffing for hospital-at-home and remote monitoring, is looking at having to lay people off, according to its CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Wouldn\u2019t This Program Be Permanently Funded?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To date, Acute Hospital Care at Home has helped about 4,000 seniors live safely in their homes. It has cut down the number of people waiting in line to get hospital care. Participants experience longer lives, and fewer moves to skilled nursing units. When their healthcare is overseen at home, they are safer from the risk of falls and other accidents that can occur when having to move into unfamiliar settings for treatment. Relatives and caregivers can believe that home really <em>is<\/em> a place where medical care works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With outcomes like these, who wouldn\u2019t want to fund Acute Hospital Care at Home? In July, Vern Buchanan, a Florida Republican at the helm of the House Ways and Means Committee\u2019s health panel, introduced a bipartisan bill to extend Acute Hospital Care at Home for five years. The problem is the lack of any such bill in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healthcare groups such as Moving Health Home, the American Telemedicine Association, and the Alliance for Connected Care are all saying that the program needs long-term funding. If this program were permanently funded, hospitals would be developing and strengthening home hospital care for seniors, not suspending it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Addressing Two Pressing Needs: Healthcare, and Real Estate &nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHospitals are facing a similar inventory crunch as the housing market,\u201d explains the National Association of REALTORS\u00ae. There\u2019s a shortage of hospital rooms, and a shortage of homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short, the country is not able to keep up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeds.com\/articles\/seniors-make-moves-to-beat-the-rush-for-retirement-housing\/\">demand for senior housing<\/a>. Hospital care at home offers essential services at a time when assisted living and continuing care are becoming harder to find. Sustaining the Acute Hospital Care at Home program helps address two critical needs at once. It should be a national priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-5-background-color has-background has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Supporting References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CBS News and Face the Nation, via <em>YouTube<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sP7MKWMSjKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Government Shutdown Becomes Second-Longest in History, No Agreement in Sight<\/a> (Oct. 22, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert King and Ruth Reader for <em>Politico Pulse<\/em>, from Politico LLC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/hospital-at-home-program-collateral-damage-of-the-shutdown-00602997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hospital-at-Home Program Collateral Damage of the Shutdown<\/a> (Oct. 14, 2025; citing Beth Feldpush of America\u2019s Essential Hospitals and other medical care professionals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allaire Conte for <em>Realtor.com<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/advice\/finance\/shutdown-halts-hospital-at-home-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Finance Shutdown Puts Home-Care Program at 320 Hospitals at Risk \u2013 Jeopardizing Aging in Place for Thousands<\/a> (Oct. 17, 2025; citing the previous piece in <em>Politico Pulse<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/freerangestock.com\/photos\/163210\/elderly-patient-with-doctor-and-nurse-in-clinical-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Freerange Stock<\/a>, licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC 1.0<\/a> (public domain).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: the current federal shutdown is now the second longest in modern U.S. history. 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