Disparities in Home Health Care Referrals and Readmissions Among Medicare Patients

1. Black patients: 22.4% discharged with HHC referrals; 15.4% readmission rate
2. White patients: 26.7% discharged with HHC referrals; 10.4% readmission rate
3. Hispanic patients: 14.7% discharged with HHC referrals; 12.6% readmission rate
4. Other races: 27.2% discharged with HHC referrals; 12.3% readmission rate

Notes: HHC refers to home health care referral at the time of discharge from the hospital. Results of a secondary data analysis from a multisite study of the implementation of discharge readiness assessments of 14,624 Medicare patients in 31 US hospitals from 09/15/2014 to 03/31/2017.

Source: Medical Care, "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Home Health Referral Among Adult Medicare Patients," January 2024
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