Discharge Planning Advisor Archives – September 1, 2011
September 1, 2011
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Care transition intervention lowers health system's hospital readmissions
Medicare spends about $17 billion a year on hospital readmissions that could have been prevented, experts say. -
Improving collaboration with the community
Hospitals and home care agencies often collaborate on an ad hoc basis with little attention to standardized policies and procedures. When these collaborations are done poorly, they can lead to problems and readmissions, which is why Children's Hospital Boston decided to create guidelines for case managers working with home care liaisons. -
Leaders describe guideline creation
Case managers at Children's Hospital Boston wrote a successful set of guidelines describing roles and responsibilities in the hospital's collaboration with home care liaisons during the discharge process. -
ACA initiative targets coordinating care
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a new initiative to help improve care for patients from their hospital stay through their transition back to the community. -
Transitional care pilot program shows promise
A nurse practitioner-led transitional care program has helped improve communication between hospital and community care providers and facilitated a timely transfer of patient information, according to a study of a two-year pilot project. -
Hospitals can add a CPR self-taught course to DP
The hospital discharge process for cardiopulmonary patients could offer patients' families and friends a video self-instruction course on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that improves discharge education and has the potential to save lives. -
ED care program has better outcomes
An emergency department (ED) program has helped reduce ED visits and has resulted in health care savings through targeting services to emergency department frequent fliers.