Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Through Better Care Transitions

By: Care About Your Care
Publisher: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Published: 1/31/2013

Traditionally, efforts to reduce readmissions have focused on hospitals, but it is becoming clear that many factors along the care continuum influence readmissions. This resource highlights innovative projects that are taking a broader view of care transitions, and implementing a variety of interventions aimed at reducing readmissions, including:

Care Transitions Intervention
Project RED
Guided Care
Transitional Care Model
Project BOOST
CMS Community-based Care Transitions Program

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