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.

In fact, one year since launching Health First’s At Home Inpatient Services – one of Florida’s first and only home-based hospital care programs – more than 250 patients who have now gone through the unique program have spoken, reporting that they prefer and respond better to treatment in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own homes.

Supported by a robust clinical infrastructure, the program allows patients presenting to the Health First Emergency Departments at Holmes Regional Medical Center, Palm Bay Hospital or Viera Hospital to be evaluated for one of the numerous conditions eligible for treatment with hospital-level care at home.

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