Monday, October 1, marked a date hospitals knew was coming since March 2010: the beginning of federal fiscal year (FY) 2013, and the initiation of the CMS Readmission Reduction Program. The ...

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The reasons hospital and health system leaders should be concerned with driving down preventable readmissions are clear. Under healthcare reform, healthcare providers with high levels of preventable ...

The numbers are disturbing and disappointingly familiar. According to the federal government, one in five elderly patients winds up back in the hospital within 30 days of leaving. The cost is ...

Hospital readmission rates are a constant source of researchers’ and academics’ analysis, particularly as American hospitals face increased pressure to reduce avoidable readmissions under the federal ...

Public health programs and initiatives that aim to lower hospital admission rates may also reduce readmissions, despite the fact that the patients in communities that have adopted these programs tend ...

Unplanned hospital readmissions in Massachusetts represent a significant cost, not only to the health system but to patients and their families, according to the findings in a Center for Health ...

Based on a new study evaluating data obtained from the 2013 Nationwide Readmissions Database, unplanned 30-day readmissions were highest after hospitalizations for sepsis. Sepsis is a medical ...

One in five Americans on Medicare winds up back in the hospital within 30 days of discharge, but a new Yale-led study suggests that there are ways to prevent this from happening for many of those ...

In a study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, pairing community health workers with hospital inpatients reduced readmissions nearly 50%. Pairing community health workers with adult ...

Procedural guidelines designed to ensure patients get quality care while in the hospital are also thought to reduce the chances a patient will need to be readmitted down the line, but a new study ...