September 11, 2025

Leadership Message: Serving patients through home infusion care

(SACRAMENTO)

Dear Colleagues,

As the demands of our patient populations change, the way we deliver care must also evolve. Hospital throughput and length of stay is also a very pressing issue in reference to affordable health care. More and more health care delivery systems are moving towards non-traditional sites of care to meet patients’ ever-changing needs. Infusion care is one of those dynamic delivery methods, and here within UC Davis Health, I’m proud to lead our home infusion team as we provide user-friendly home infusion to our patients.

Our home infusion team consists of physician leadership, pharmacists, nurses, pharmacy technicians, intake staff, billing analysts, and administrative personnel. Providing care since 2022, our interdisciplinary group works tirelessly to deliver innovative care and scale to serve our growing patient populations.

Think of what it’s like to go to the hospital, your doctor’s office, or infusion center to receive life-saving infusion/injectable care. Antibiotics, chemotherapy, biologics and biosimilars, parenteral nutrition, PrEP/HIV treatment, you name it. Now think of that same care provided in the comfort of your home. Can’t drive? No worries. No health care facility near? Not a problem. Debilitating injuries or medical conditions? We make it work. Equitable health care at our patients’ doorsteps is what we’re about.

Not only do we aim to meet the evolving needs of our patients, but we also aid in our system readiness against site of care policy mandates. As health care costs steadily rise, strategies are continually being implemented to manage overall infusion costs of care. One of these strategies encompasses the redirection of patients to non-hospital-based sites of care.

Without having non-hospital-based infusion sites at the ready, health systems face the predicament of losing patients to outside delivery networks positioned to capitalize on this oversight. This has led to care fragmentation and poorer health outcomes. With our home infusion team, not only are we able to improve patient satisfaction, but we also are able to promote care continuity within UC Davis Health.