Approximately What Percentage of Residency Programs in the U.S. Offers a House Call Rotation?

Increasingly recognized for the significant role it plays in providing quality, patient-centered care for homebound or home-limited patients, home-based primary care (HBPC) offers providers a unique opportunity to deliver medical care to patients where they live. The approach is especially beneficial for patients with high-cost, complex medical needs because it helps curtail unnecessary emergency room trips and repeat hospitalizations.

When HCCI learned that second-year resident Dr. Dillon Karst at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital had elected to complete another house call rotation with Northwestern Medicine HomeCare Physicians, the practice headed up by Dr. Paul Chiang, HCCI’s Senior Medical and Practice Advisor, HCCI interviewed him — along with Dr. Chiang — to find out what brought him back, and more. In this clip, the question is, “Approximately what percentage of residency programs in the U.S. would you guess offer a house call rotation?”