Canadian Hospital at Home Community

About Us

The Canadian Hospital at Home Community is a national network of clinicians, researchers, health leaders, and policymakers advancing the development, implementation, and financial as well as environmental sustainability of Hospital at Home (HaH) programs across Canada. Their mission is to foster innovation, collaboration, and knowledge exchange to improve patient care, reduce hospital pressures, and transform the way acute care is delivered.

Explore the content bleow to learn more about the global and Canadian HaH movement, our community, and how to get involved.

What is Hospital at Home?

Hospital at Home (HaH), also known as Hospital in the Home (HITH) is an innovative model of care that delivers hospital-level treatment (including staff, equipment, technologies, therapies) to patients in the comfort of their own home. It is a safe, effective, patient-centered alternative to traditional inpatient hospitalization for selected individuals with acute medical conditions that substitutes for acute care days in hospital.

Definition: What is Hospital at Home?

HAH is:

  • Episodic care (not chronic disease management)
  • 24/7 medical oversight
  • Daily virtual or in-person physician care
  • In-home nursing, diagnostics, and therapies
  • Remote monitoring technologies
  • Rapid response pathways for escalation

HAH IS NOT:

  • Primary care
  • Skilled nursing facility care
  • Home care
  • Outpatient parenteral therapy
    Virtual only care
  • Hospital prevention outpatient care

Get Involved!

If you are a healthcare provider, leader, policy-maker, researcher, or person with lived experience with an interest in Hospital at Home in Canada, consider joining our Canadian Hospital at Home Community. You can sign up at this link. This will provide updates on upcoming events (webinars, conferences, etc.).

If you are interested in joining a working group to further Canadian quality improvement, research, innovation, or education, you can also email canhah.conference@gmail.com.

Industry Partnerships
If you are in industry and are interested in partnering with the Canadian Hospital at Home Community team for knowledge translation, research, or to sponsor an event, please email canhah.conference@gmail.com and put “Potential industry partnership” in the subject line.

Test the Tool

The GLOBE-HaH Tool is a global initiative designed to define, compare, and analyze Hospital at Home (HaH) programs. It was collaboratively developed for HaH programs that provide acute hospital-level substitutive care at home, as defined by WHAHC 2023.

Learn more.

Events

Future Events:

  • Canadian Hospital at Home Conference May 14-15, 2026

Past events:

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