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Physician-owned Medical Group Reduces Readmission Rate to 6%
A new population health management program in Ohio is expanding to transform care for Medicare Advantage patients. It’s building on its success with providing a toolbox of services to patients, centered around primary care.
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Housing Is Critical to Healthcare Plan Success
Case management often focuses on patients’ social determinants of health as a part of the bigger health picture. Now, there’s a small but growing number of organizations that are making one social determinant — housing — an integral part of all healthcare coordination.
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Community Finds Unique Ways to Bring Case Management to the Frontier
A care coordination program that uses care facilitators has helped to improve care coordination and reduce ED use among a frontier, or very rural, population.
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ACOs Yield Quality Lessons for Hospitals, May Expand
Medicare accountable care organizations have yielded valuable lessons about value-based care and positioned some hospitals to be competitive in the future, with the most recent results showing participants improving quality and reaping financial rewards.
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Program Helps Senior Citizens Live at Home and Stay Out of the Nursing Home
Geisinger Health System’s Living Independently for Elders (LIFE) program provides medical care, therapy, adult day activities, and home visits for elderly patients who meet the medical criteria for a nursing home admission.
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Following Seniors After Discharge Slashes Readmission Rates
Readmission rates dropped from 19.9% to 13.5% when Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas launched a program to follow up with elderly patients hospitalized with pneumonia, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Emergency Department Is Tailor-made to Meet the Needs of Older Patients
At St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, MI, patients 65 or older are treated in an ED staffed by clinicians with geriatric training, and equipped with non-skid floors, pressure-reducing mattresses, and tools to help with impaired hearing and low vision.
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A Few Extra Minutes With Seniors May Help Avoid a Readmission
Preparing older patients to manage when they are discharged to home is a process that takes time and patience.
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Research Shows Link Between Quality and Readmission Rates
New research using CMS data is confirming the relationship between quality care and lower readmission rates.
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Communication Failures Let Multidrug-resistant Bug Spread Between Settings
An outbreak of extremely drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii at multiple facilities in Oregon underscores an open secret as bad bugs move across the healthcare continuum: There are disincentives to telling the receiving facility that the patient has a history of a drug-resistant bacteria or other problematic pathogens.