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In quality improvement circles, certain states have gained a reputation for excellence, and recent statistics out of Pennsylvania seem to indicate that this particular state's reputation is well deserved. A new report issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) shows a decline of 12.5% for overall health care-associated infection (HAI) rates at the state's acute care hospitals in 2009.
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A health care model that seeks to improve quality while reducing costs is attracting more attention lately as the health care reform has made it a priority for pilot project funds.
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Here's a common hospital discharge scenario: the patient is ready to be discharged home, and the hospital has a discharge planner or case manager who is prepared to call the patient's primary care physician (PCP) to discuss the patient's post-discharge care. But who does the discharge planner call? And will anyone respond to the call?
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A health care model that seeks to improve quality while reducing costs is attracting more attention lately as the health care reform has made it a priority for pilot project funds.
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Here's a common hospital discharge scenario: the patient is ready to be discharged home, and the hospital has a discharge planner or case manager who is prepared to call the patient's primary care physician (PCP) to discuss the patient's post-discharge care. But who does the discharge planner call? And will anyone respond to the call?
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Mistakes happen even to the best clinicians. This is why hospitals increasingly are relying on checklists and other tools to assist clinicians in the discharge process.
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Calling patients after hospital discharge is a good quality improvement and patient satisfaction strategy, but it is often difficult to implement because of resource restraints.
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The health care system benefits when unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided, and sometimes the best place to impact that trend is by focusing discharge services on the hospital emergency department (ED), an expert says.
