Joining Hands to Prevent Readmissions
September 1, 2012 less than 1 minute read
Joining Hands to Prevent Readmissions
It's no longer enough for hospitals to concentrate their readmission prevention efforts on what goes on inside the hospital walls. As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other payers start to issue penalties for excess readmissions, hospital case managers need to collaborate with their counterparts at other levels of care to ensure that patients have a successful discharge. In this issue, we examine the whys and hows of communitywide discharge collaborations and look at what hospitals are doing to join hands with post-acute providers. We'll give you tips for improving your internal discharge processes and teaming up with community providers to prevent readmissions. You'll learn how one hospital slowly built liaisons with community providers, how one hospital joined hands with the Visiting Nurse Association, and how two hospitals partnered with their local Agencies on the Aging to provide post-acute follow up.
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