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A new report from RWJF shows that hospitals and their community allies made little progress from 2008 to 2010 at reducing hospital readmissions for elderly patients.
The report finds that the chance of readmission after patients leave the hospital varies markedly across regions and hospitals and that overall readmission rates did not decline meaningfully. The findings are based on new Medicare data from the Dartmouth Atlas Project that includes readmission rates for states, hospital referral regions, and more than 3,000 hospitals.
View an interactive map of the regional data
Read the reportAmerica's health care system faces a dangerous and costly crisis: too many patients are readmitted to the hospital shortly after discharge due to poor care transitions.