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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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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Avoidable Hospitalizations in Cuyahoga County Fall by Nearly 3,000 for Patients with Common Cardiovascular Conditions, Saving More than $20 million
January 30, 2013 | News Release
Avoidable hospitalizations in Cuyahoga County, Ohio—one of RWJF’s Aligning Forces for Quality communities—fell by nearly 3,000 for patients with common cardiovascular conditions, saving more than $20 million in health care costs.
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.
Nurse Care Advocate Improves Heart Failure Care
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.
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.