Once an active man, the elderly patient was confined to the bed and dependent on his family for even the most basic tasks ...

For James Edwards, a 57-year-old patient with congestive heart failure ... Edwards spent eight days recovering at home rather than in a hospital bed and he believes he got the best of both ...

With no place to go, these patients occupy expensive hospital beds they don’t need ... the clinic’s six-year-old SNF-at-home program is often the only option, said Swetha Gudibanda, medical ...