Home recovery trial could change Post-Hospital care
NCT ID NCT06547645
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study compares home-based skilled nursing and rehab care to traditional facility-based care for 650 adults leaving the hospital. Participants are randomly assigned to recover at home with a care team or go to a skilled nursing facility. The main goal is to see if home care leads to fewer hospital readmissions and deaths within 30 days.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Sub-Acute Rehab at Home (home-based skilled nursing and rehabilitative care)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a safe and effective alternative to nursing facility care, allowing more people to recover at home.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage trial comparing two care models, not a new drug or treatment. Results may vary by location and patient condition, and home care may not be suitable for everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 650 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2024
- Expected to finish
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May 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * 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 Criteria: * 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
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Baystate Medical Center
RECRUITINGSpringfield, Massachusetts, 01199, United States
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
RECRUITINGWorcester, Massachusetts, 02446, United States
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