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Aetna's pilot program sending advanced practice nurses into the home of at-risk Medicare patients within seven days of hospital discharge resulted in a 20% decrease in hospital readmissions, over and above the 23% readmission reductions already achieved by the health plan's case management program for Medicare Advantage patients.
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Providers and payers alike are recognizing that ensuring smooth transitions when patients move between levels of care and implementing projects to help transitioning patients avoid an emergency room visit or a hospital readmission is the right thing to do.
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Kaiser Permanente's six-step process to improve transitions of care has resulted in reduced preventive hospital readmissions, an increase in the percentage of patients with physician appointments within five days of discharge, and raised patient satisfaction scores.
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To prevent readmissions when patients are transitioning from the acute care hospital to an inpatient rehabilitation center, case managers should make sure the patients are appropriate for acute rehab, that their medical conditions are stable, and that they can tolerate three hours of therapy every day.
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Every now and then at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto, Canada, there was talk about getting ventilated patients up and about even if they were still intubated. Some people thought that the patients should be weaned off the ventilator first, some thought after, says Linda Nusdorfer, RN, MSN, an advanced practice nurse for critical care and cardiovascular care at the facility. Still others wanted to work on weaning and mobility at the same time.
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As demand for emergency care continues its upward climb, The Joint Commission is taking steps to strengthen its accreditation standards pertaining to patient throughput, and it is putting hospital leaders on notice that they will be held accountable for patient flow challenges that occur in the ED.
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University of Michigan Health System study shows unequal burden among the 116 million adults who suffer chronic pain.
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MetroHealth System's care coordination program for the uninsured, Partners in Care, has resulted in 34.8% fewer inpatient stays at an average cost of 15.4% less than a demographically similar group of patients who were not enrolled in the program.
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If you say it out loud, people will agree intuitively: You can learn more from your failures than from your successes. But that agreement doesn't mean people want to trumpet what doesn't work.
