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Finding Value in Data

data they can carefully analyze to, for example, help reduce readmissions. This is accomplished in ...

Jun 06,2013

Because Every Patient Counts

reduce 30-day readmission rates for heart failure (HF), Carson City Hospital in Michigan was able to use ... showed that the hospital’s 30-day readmission rate for heart failure was 24.2 percent around the time the project began. It is now down to 22.5 percent, Sweet said. Nationally, the median 30-day readmission rate ...

Dec 19,2012

June 2014 | Patient Experience Matters

community-based organizations have banded together to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions through a program ... fee-for-service patients who are at risk for readmission to the hospital after an acute care episode.</p> ...

Jun 11,2014

Improving the Quality of Life for Children Living with Asthma

Wed, 2013-08-07 (All day) Poorly controlled asthma reduces the quality of life for ... $1,281,720 in savings in the Kansas City Area by preventing asthma-related hospital readmissions.   ...

Aug 07,2013

Applying a Team Approach to Patient Discharge

compliance, and reduce patient falls and hospital-acquired conditions, such as pressure ulcers. TCAB requires ... care organization (ACO) relies heavily on greater coordinated care among providers to reduce hospital readmissions, which then ultimately controls costs. TCAB could have a role in this environment by controlling ...

Dec 13,2012

National Meeting, November 2011 (Washington D.C.)

principles of commons management have been applied to reduce readmissions in work done by quality improvement ... session featured the strategies employers, health plans, and consumers use to reduce costs and promote the ... that gets to the heart of the matter; that is, after you have identified the opportunities to reduce ...

Mar 28,2012

National Meeting, November 2011 (Washington, DC)

principles of commons management have been applied to reduce readmissions in work done by quality improvement ... session featured the strategies employers, health plans, and consumers use to reduce costs and promote the ... that gets to the heart of the matter; that is, after you have identified the opportunities to reduce ...

May 24,2012

Engaged Patients, Improved Care

improving the quality of life for the patients to reducing avoidable readmissions and medical ...

Feb 26,2014

Simple Questions, Better Care

cornerstone to reducing health care disparities and improving clinical outcomes for patients. This was exactly ... change." Examples could include readmission rates or the incidence of emergency department visits ...

Jun 04,2014

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