Lowering rehospitalization rates a focus at Online Expo
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 02, 2015
While providers have made some progress with reducing rehospitalizations, the era of managed care organizations and better hospital partnerships means new strategies are needed. Attendees at the McKnight’s...
New readmissions initiative to rely heavily on technology
By
John O'Connor
Apr 02, 2012
Applied technology is likely to play a role in a new federal initiative designed to reduce hospital readmissions.
CMS discloses new post-acute initiative to prevent rehospitalizations
Apr 14, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is beginning a new pilot program to help ease the adjustment from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility or home. The purpose is to prevent hospital readmissions.
Providers urged to coordinate better care in vulnerable year after stroke hits
Dec 20, 2010
Within a year of suffering an acute ischemic stroke, two-thirds of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital either died or were rehospitalized. This is according to a UCLA-led study, published in...
New studies, CMS rules attempt to lower rehospitalizations for seniors
Jun 14, 2011
The rate of rehospitalization of seniors within 30 days of discharge from a nursing home has surged in the last several years, to an estimated annual cost of more than $17 billion.
Readmission rates, episode costs higher for patients with dementia
Mar 20, 2023
The cost of 30-day readmission and total 30-day episode costs are higher for patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias, researchers report.
Out of the data silo
By
Brett Bakshis
Dec 01, 2014
Interoperability, data analytics and intervention models are giving providers a new way to use healthcare information technology to prevent rehospitalization
IT project aims to reduce hospital readmissions
By
Liza Berger
Dec 08, 2010
As the government strives to limit rehospitalizations, one nursing home and a couple of hospitals in New York City are staying ahead of the pack.
Why standardization?
By
Steven Littlehale
Mar 05, 2015
There’s a saying that “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”
Backlogged hospitals want back into the nursing home business — without the hassles of ownership
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 08, 2024
Many hospitals and health systems that have cut back on their own skilled nursing capabilities over the last two decades are now looking to take back additional control over their post-acute processes.