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.

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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.

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.

Care Coordination & Readmissions

A collection of success stories on care coordination and readmissions from the front lines of American health care, providing free access to strategies used by hospitals and medical practices nationwide to improve care.

Readmission Rates Tell Only Part of the Story

January 22, 2013 | Story

Study by RWJF Clinical Scholars finds many patients visit emergency departments after discharge, revealing possible flaw in the way new federal incentive programs assess hospital care.

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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.

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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.

Cardiology Admission Orders Physician's Order Sheet

June 4, 2008 | Toolkit

Staff combined information from three existing order sets into a single, comprehensive cardiology admission order set to reduce provider confusion and help the hospital reach regular compliance rates of 90 to 100% for evidence-based cardiac measures.

Smoothing the Transition From Hospital to Community for Older Adults in Jacksonville, Fla.

December 7, 2011 | Story

Mark LeMaire led a community partnership in Jacksonville, Fla., that placed elder care advocates in area hospitals to help discharged patients transition back to the community. The hospitals have since incorporated the program into their operations.