A new collection of success stories from the front lines of American health care provides free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care. This library of innovations is based on years of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded hospital and community-based health care quality improvement initiatives.
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Hear from national experts Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN RN and Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, who have developed innovative models of care to help people make the difficult transition from hospital to home.
See what frontline clinicians from around the country are doing to address this complex problem. Learn what impact the Affordable Care Act may have on reducing avoidable readmissions and what light new data from the Dartmouth Atlas sheds on regional variations in care.
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Traditionally, efforts to reduce avoidable readmissions have focused on hospitals, but it is becoming clear that many factors along the care continuum influence readmissions. These innovative national models take a broader view of care transitions, and are implementing a variety of interventions aimed at reducing avoidable readmissions.
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Measurement is emerging as a key step in improving the quality of care transitions. NQF’s Measure Application Partnership has compiled a family of measures for care coordination.
Beth Ann Swan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN is Dean of the Jefferson School of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. After her husband Eric suffered a serious brain stem stroke while away from home, Swan learned first hand how challenging the transition from hospital to home can be and gained greater understanding of the valuable role nursing can play.
