The shift to home care: Another new normal resulting from Covid-19 Covid-19 has highlighted the critical importance of increased communication and transparency between acute and post-acute providers, and the immediate need for more diverse acute and post-acute care options. Shares0 The Covid-19 pandemic has magnified critical issues in the United States healthcare system, and has made significant, potentially long-lasting impacts on care transitions, referral patterns and care delivery across the acute and post-acute settings. In what may be our new normal at the post-acute level, many hospitals, patients and families continue to opt for in-home care over institutional care settings such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). This marked shift in care delivery preferences can be explained by several factors, whether it’s a patient or family’s fear surrounding SNF stays during the Covid-19 pandemic, families that worry they will be restricted from visiting a patient in a SNF, or people that are simply able to take on caregiving responsibilities while working from home or unemployed. But what exactly led us to this point, and will this marked shift in how care is delivered last beyond the pandemic?