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.

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

Health Leaders Join Forces to Tackle National Problem of Hospital Readmissions

January 31, 2013 | News Release

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

Adherence to Discharge Guidelines for Late-Preterm Newborns

July 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Babies born between 34 to 36 weeks' gestation are being discharged early at stubbornly high rates in some regions and types of hospitals, despite mid-1990s care guidelines and insurance mandates to cover longer hospital stays.

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

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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.

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.

Quality and Cost Analysis of Nurse Staffing, Discharge Preparation, and Postdischarge Utilization

April 21, 2011 | Journal Article

Investments in nursing care hours reduce hospital readmissions by better preparing patients for discharge.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care

National Program

Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.

Policy Options to Improve Discharge Planning and Reduce Rehospitalization

January 19, 2011 | Commentary

Short hospital stays, rehospitalizations and transitions among health care settings have become increasingly common. Financial policy changes should be implemented to incentivize longer hospital stays and better-coordinated post-discharge care.