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April 8, 2013 | Story
Newton-Wellesley Hospital implemented a variety of initiatives focused on improving its discharge process. Two critical components of the project included streamlining its data collection and enhancing communication between hospital staff.
April 8, 2013 | Story
Methodist South Hospital formed a multidisciplinary in-hospital team to develop interventions targeted at reducing the hospital’s readmissions rate.
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.
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.
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.
February 15, 2013
Responding to newly emerging models of coordinated care, staff at University of Utah Health Care piloted hiring a transitions navigator, leveraging best practices from national care transitions leaders.
February 15, 2013
Queen of the Valley Medical Center uses the CARE Network to ensure a seamless continuum of care from hospital discharge back into the community setting is established.
February 15, 2013
Northern Piedmont Community Care implemented a nurse care manager program, which utilizes home visits with patients recently discharged from the hospital to make sure that a care plan is established and followed.
February 15, 2013
Mercy Health in Cincinnati, Ohio implemented Dr. Eric Coleman’s care transitions model by using nurses specially trained to act as patients’ guides through the discharge process.
February 15, 2013
Seeking to reduce 30 day readmissions rates, Cullman Regional Medical Center sought to improve communication and patient understanding at the point of discharge.