If given a choice between spending a night (or more) in a hospital and receiving the same hospital-level care in the comfort, familiarity and convenience of one’s own home, chances are excellent that most individuals would choose home.

Daryl Wattenbarger of Palm Bay did. And he shared his Health First at Home Inpatient Services story with Spectrum News 13 April 27. "My wife and I decided, why would we not be on board with this? You're here, you're able to eat well, you're able to take your medications as prescribed."

In fact, more than one year since launching Health First at Home Inpatient Services – one of Florida’s first and only home-based hospital care programs – more than 500 patients who have now gone through the unique program have spoken, reporting that they prefer and respond better to treatment in their own homes.

"What better place for a person to be taken care of than in their home? How more customer-centric could you be? And if you're getting better results, even better,” Dr. Mark Rosenbloom, Health First's Vice President of Clinical Transformation, told Florida Today. "The literature to date really shows that there's a lot of improvements in outcomes. Patients just do better at home than they do in the hospital.

READ the full story in Florida Today here.

WATCH Dr. Mark Rosenbloom explain Health First at Home Inpatient Services in a Health First Medical Minute!