Status:

RECRUITING

Skilled Nursing Facility at Home Trial

Lead Sponsor:

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Collaborating Sponsors:

Baystate Health

UMass Memorial Health

Conditions:

Skilled Nursing Facility

Rehabilitation

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Skilled Nursing Facility at Home is a multicenter randomized control trial that aims to evaluate a home-based model of providing post-acute care (PAC). We will enroll 650 hospitalized patients who req...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age 18 or older
  • Admitted to an inpatient unit OR receiving home health and requiring an escalation to skilled-nursing facility care
  • Require post-acute care in a skilled nursing facility based on the clinical inpatient team's assessment (or, if the participant is coming from home, based on the home health team's assessment)
  • Pass the home readiness assessment
  • Reside within Greater Worcester or Greater Springfield

Exclusion

  • Inability to return to a home residence where care can be provided
  • Inability for patient or their proxy to provide informed consent for the study
  • Requires long-term care
  • Requires palliative or hospice care
  • On active chemotherapy
  • Post-transplant surgery
  • Requires hemodialysis
  • Requires radiation therapy
  • Requires two-person assist or mechanical lift
  • Expresses unwillingness to be randomized to SNF OR SNF at Home care
  • Considered clinically inappropriate by SNF at Home clinical team

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 26 2024

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

June 26 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

650 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06547645

Start Date

August 26 2024

End Date

June 26 2026

Last Update

January 5 2026

Active Locations (2)

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Baystate Medical Center

Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, 01199

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UMass Memorial Medical Center

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 02446