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.

Combining Better Systems and Intensive Patient Education for Better Heart Care

March 24, 2010 | Story

Del Sol Medical Center improved its patient chart review and discharge processes, and enhanced its heart failure center, with support from Expecting Success.

Redesigning Primary Care: Clinics Switch to Practice Teams

October 6, 2008 | Story

Under the direction of Waterman and Wheeler, HealthPartners embarked on an ambitious redesign of clinic processes aimed at transforming the organization’s 638-physician medical group.

The Issue

Care About Your Care is a national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift the overall quality of care.

Provider Resources

Care About Your Care is a national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality of care.

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.

Improving Chronic Illness Care

December 12, 2011 | Program Result

Improving Chronic Illness Care supported a clinical improvement program, targeted research and dissemination related to the Chronic Care Model, a patient-centered, collaborative approach to the delivery of care for people with chronic illness.

Continuing Education

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Learn how to improve care transitions and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions, and pick up nursing and medical education con-ed credits.

Care About Your Care

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A national conversation highlighting efforts to improve care transitions, reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, and lift overall quality of care.

NEJM Study: Primary Care Clinicians Can Treat Hepatitis C as Effectively as Specialists Through New Delivery Model

June 1, 2011 | News Release

University of New Mexico's Project ECHO poised to spread best practices, eliminate barriers to treatment and improve health care quality across the United States.