- Nakeisha M. Curry, M.D., Medical Director, Healthcare Partners Group.
Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 8, Number 3, March 2019, Industry News: "Well Care Reduces All Cause Readmission Rate by 61% with HRS Telehealth."
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Leveraging Predictive Models to Reduce ReadmissionsUnityPoint Health (UPH) focused on integra-ting analytical models within the same readmission reduction strategy and coaching the care team to facilitate their adoption. Using this approach, one of UPH hospital’s risk-adjusted readmission indexes improved 40 percent over three years, surpassing internal system targets in performance and becoming the top performer in the health system. and readmissions in Fall 2018. |
5 things to know about hospital readmissions for sepsis
1. 17.5% of patients with an initial admission
for sepsis had a 30-day readmission to the hospital.
2. 22.86% of these readmissions were caused by sepsis.
3. The median time to readmission was 11 days.
4. The mean cost per
sepsis readmission within 30 days of discharge was $16,852.
5. The
annual cost of sepsis readmissions in the U.S. is $3.5 billion.
Source:
Chest, abstract only, March 2019
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