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	"More than 2,000 of our member centers have already achieved our three-year goal to reduce readmissions by 15 percent. I think the most common characteristic we’ve seen among these sorts of providers is first and foremost, they make this issue a priority. They are monitoring their and their peers’ readmission rates through our online tool LTC Trend Tracker. They are using tools proven to reduce readmissions, such as INTERACT developed by Dr. Joseph Ouslander. These providers are also implementing consistent staff assignment to help caregivers become more familiar with their patients, so they can identify changes in the patient earlier and possibly intervene. And they’re bringing physicians and nurse practitioners into the nursing center to address health concerns there on the premises versus sending them to the hospital.” David Gifford, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Quality and Regulatory Affairs, American Health Care Association (AHCA).
	"Piloting a post-discharge home visit program using social workers, Partners in Care Foundation’s HomeMedsSM intervention found that 63% of targeted high-risk patients had a medication issue for which a pharmacist recommended prescriber action. Problems ranged from falls related to use of psychoactive medications to duplications of opioids and same-class blood pressure medications like beta blockers." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 3, Number 3, March 2014, "Building Regional Networks to Reduce Readmissions"
	Readmissions at a Public Safety Net Hospital PLOSone, March 11, 2014
	Bill would factor socioeconomic risk into hospital readmission rates American Hospital Association News, March 11, 2014
	Tech companies tackle readmissions Healthcare IT News, March 5, 2014
	High-impact readmissions I.T. Health Data Management, March 1, 2014
	Medical and surgical readmissions in the Veterans health administration Medical Care, abstract only, March 2014
	What’s the Real Cause of Hospital Readmissions? Hospital EMR and EHR, February 24, 2014
	Building Regional Networks to Reduce Readmissions By W. June Simmons and Sandy Atkins Proactive Palliative Care: Using Frailty as a Trigger for Referral By Stephen J Evans, MD, and Margaret E Sayers, MS, GNP The Editor’s Corner - A Farewell; Megan Williams, APRN, FNP on Care for the Complex Patient Top Ten Tech Trends: Analytics for Readmissions Reduction Work by Mark Hagland Thought Leader’s Corner: “What are the distinguishing characteristics of the organizations that are doing a particularly good job at reducing preventable readmissions?” Industry News with briefs regarding tAHA; ACEP; JAMA Surgery and ACOOMS+ Catching up with … David Gifford, MD, MPH Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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