Hospital Focuses on Community Engagement to Help Reduce Readmissions
April 8, 2013 | Story
Methodist South Hospital formed a multidisciplinary in-hospital team to develop interventions targeted at reducing the hospital’s readmissions rate.
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Post-Visit Patient Contact Improves Patient Satisfaction
April 8, 2013 | Story
Contacting patients the day after an ED visit has helped Edward Hospital & Health Services consistently achieve 95 – 99 percent Press Ganey satisfaction scores, reduce the risk of negative outcomes following discharge, and collect patient data.
Reform in Action: How the U.S. Health Care System Can Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
March 5, 2013
Almost one in five elderly patients released from a hospital is back within 30 days, and more than one in three are back within 90 days. Although some readmissions are part of a patient’s treatment plan, many are avoidable.
Reform in Action: How the U.S. Health Care System Can Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
February 28, 2013 | Issue Brief/Infographic
Almost one in five elderly patients released from a hospital is back within 30 days, and more than one in three are back within 90 days. Although some readmissions are part of a patient’s treatment plan, many are avoidable.
Readmissions Database Helps Hospital Curb Readmissions
February 27, 2013
Medina hospital created a readmissions database and set up a new workflow process to target heart failure patients with education to avoid a readmission to the hospital. Over 18 months, readmissions were reduced by 9 percent.
Heart Failure Education Reduces Readmissions
February 26, 2013
Oregon Health and Science University cut readmissions for heart failure patients by 11 percent over an 18-month period through improved patient education.
Interpreters to Ensure Patients Receive Instructions in Their Native Language
February 26, 2013
Oregon Health and Science University saw a 65 percent improvement in ensuring patients with limited English proficiency have an interpreter during admission and discharge.
Nurse Care Advocate Improves Heart Failure Care
February 26, 2013
Since implementing a Care Advocate position, Marymount Hospital has steadily maintained 100 percent compliance with core measures for heart failure care and reduced its heart failure readmission rate by 26 percent.
Hospital Uses “LACE” Assessment to Reduce Readmissions
February 15, 2013
Redington-Fairview General Hospital provided at least 95 percent of HF patients with all the recommended procedures and assessments in the Measure of Ideal Care bundle for 13 out of 15 months during the initiative.
The Revolving Door Syndrome: Patients Returning to Hospital Within Days of Being Released
February 11, 2013 | News Release
A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that hospitals and their community allies made little progress from 2008 to 2010 at reducing hospital readmissions for elderly patients.