‘We want this to be able to continue’: Successful home hospital programs could be victims of D.C. gridlock

Paula Ward’s phone rang at 2:08 a.m., waking her up on the couch in her apartment in South Boston. It was her nurse. Ward’s oxygen levels had dropped, the nurse said, explaining the early morning call. She asked Ward to clamp a small device to the end of her finger to check her oxygen saturation, or percentage of oxygen in her blood.
‘We want this to be able to continue’: Successful home hospital programs could be victims of D.C. gridlock