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The best way to prevent hospital readmissions is to make sure patients are better managed and receive the care they need after they leave the hospital, states Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN, vice president of community health and continuum care for Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, AZ.
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When Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN, vice president of community health and continuum care for Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, AZ, ran a community case management program for high-risk congestive heart failure patients, she was surprised to discover that many of the patients did not understand their diagnosis or their discharge instructions.
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Patients who are discharged to the hospital with home care on Fridays are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within a week than patients discharged on other days of the week, according to Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq., a Washington DC-based attorney specializing in health care issues.
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From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) perspective, the saying "ignorance is bliss" does not apply when it comes to a patient's status.
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Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services web site. https://questions.cms.hhs.gov.
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When California Pacific Medical Center was named a top hospital for patient quality and safety for the fourth year in a row by the Leapfrog Group, the award cited the hospital's length-of-stay initiatives.
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Faced with a growing population of patients with heart failure who are awaiting a transplant and a shortage of intensive care beds, The Methodist Hospital in Houston is partnering with one local long-term acute care hospital in a program to care for patients with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
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A new process for managing radiological discrepancies in the ED at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, NC, has significantly improved the efficiency with which notifications are received and acted upon.
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A new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine highlights the problem of hospital patients being unaware of their own medications.1
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In the first year of Stony Brook University (NY)Medical Center care management department's interdisciplinary project to reduce the length of stay for long-stay patients, aggregate patients days dropped from 4,400 to just more than 3,000 in a year, resulting in a revenue opportunity of approximately $4 million.
