Port St. Lucie Magazine

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Patients who qualify for Cleveland Clinic’s Hospital Care at Home program enjoy the same professional care, with the added comforts of home.

Program brings the hospital to the patients, where they live

BY ELLEN GILLETTE

Jon Rubinstein and Karen Richardson boosted Cleveland Clinic’s HCAH program with a donation that helped fund the program’s command center in Vero Beach.

Your elderly parent is in the hospital—anxious, alone. Medical personnel come and go. When you visit, you can’t stay long because of children at home. You wish you could do more.

Or hospitalized yourself, you worry whether your pets are a burden on the neighbors. Treated for one disease, you contract another — a hospital-acquired infection such as MRSA or C-diff 

— necessitating a longer stay.

What if you or your loved one could receive hospital-level care while enjoying the comfort, safety and tranquility of home? Thanks to Cleveland Clinic’s Hospital Care at Home [HCAH] program, that’s possible.