Maimonides Health and myLaurel have teamed up to deliver safe, high-quality in-home care for patients following hospitalization
NEW YORK, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its continued focus to provide coordinated care to its community and support patient care needs following hospital discharge, Maimonides Health now offers care at home with myLaurel, an experienced provider of acute and transitional care delivered in the home.
Together, the organizations are offering safe, patient-centered care, particularly to better support frail, elderly, and medically complex patients. Those hospitalized patients at Maimonides Health will now have the option to recover at home, supported by myLaurel's clinical care team. This approach helps reduce avoidable readmissions to the hospital while enhancing the overall quality and patient experience. When appropriate, care at home is more comfortable and convenient than longer inpatient hospital admissions or placement in post-acute facilities. The organizations will collaborate to ensure coordination with outpatient specialists and the patient's primary care provider.
"Our collaboration with myLaurel marks a pivotal step in our ongoing efforts to enhance the patient experience while they are receiving care here at the hospital and at home, continuing their recovery," said Dr. John Marshall, Chief Medical Officer of Maimonides Health. "Based on the program's prior results with other similar health systems, we anticipate that more patients will recover fully at home, rather than returning to the hospital for subsequent tertiary care."
The program will be available immediately to qualified patients age 65 and over as well as patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, and other serious conditions. In the coming months, the program will expand to other patients.
According to Dr. Marcy Carty, President and Chief Medical Officer at myLaurel, patients are proven to have better outcomes when they recover at home versus an abrupt hospital discharge followed by fragmented outpatient care, which potential access issues can exacerbate. The care at home model also allows myLaurel caretakers to ensure a patient's social determinant needs are met and families feel more empowered with clear escalation plans. "In-home care starts on day one, and continues for two weeks," she explained. "Then we deliver a strong handoff to the next phase of care. This partnership enables us to deliver that kind of wraparound support—reducing length of stay and improving care. We anticipate a 50% reduction in patient readmissions and a 25% reduction in length of stay for one in five of these inpatients in the first year—and more importantly, ensuring more patients achieve full recovery at home, without cycling back into the hospital system."
About Maimonides Health
Maimonides Health is Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 320,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1,800+ physicians and more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties and Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center.
Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. For additional information, please visit www.maimo.org and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.
About myLaurel
myLaurel was founded on the belief that much of today's hospital care can—and should—be delivered in the comfort of home. As a tech-enabled medical group, we provide on-demand acute and transitional care to frail, elderly, or medically complex patients at home—helping them avoid the traditional care path of ambulance, ER, hospital admission, and nursing facility.
Health systems, provider groups, and payers partner with us to reduce avoidable utilization, improve readmission rates, accelerate discharges, and enhance patient experience—all while maintaining the highest standards of care and safety. We stand behind our outcomes with our partners, putting our fees at risk to demonstrate our commitment and confidence in delivering results.
Headquartered in New York, myLaurel delivers hands-on clinical care guided by remote physicians and supported by advanced technology, diagnostics, and therapies. The result: 33% lower ED utilization, 49% fewer readmissions, 3,000+ bed days saved per hospital annually, allowing for over 640 new acute inpatient admissions and a 96 patient NPS. Learn more at mylaurelhealth.com.
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