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Inside Medicare’s episode payment models: major provisions and potential implications for 2018

"We see some delivery systems achieve 700 hospital days per thousand for Medicare populations (versus the US Average of 1,700) when they really understand and support their complex patients. But only organizations which operate in financial environments where investments in outpatient care pay off in inpatient savings can make this work over the long term.” - Diane Stewart, Senior Director, Pacific Business Group on Health and the California Quality Collaborative.

"The research, published in American Health & Drug Benefits journal and supported by Abbott, found that when Advocate Health Care implemented a nutrition care program at four of its Chicago area hospitals, it showed more than $4.8 million in cost savings due to shorter hospital stays and lower readmission rates."

Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 6, Number 8, August 2017, Industry News: "The Cost of Malnutrition: Study Shows Nutrition Program Could Save Hospitals up to $3,800 per Patient."

Improve Heart Failure Self Care and Reduce Readmissions Using Data to Understand the Problem

This is the second in a series of webinars to assist communities in improving heart failure care. The presentation reviews how one idea for how to ensure safe transitions and reduce readmissions can grow into a program using data to drive the initiative forward.

Patti Baicy: Five Ways Post-Acute Care Providers Can Minimize Hospital Readmissions

1. Patient assessment.
2. Care planning.
3. Click to continue

Source: McKesson Blog, August 14, 2017

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The Hidden Actors in Hospital Readmissions by Ben Rosner, MD, PhD

In-Hospital Discharge Program Improves Patient Experience Leaving the Hospital by Ramon S. Cancino

Medication-Related Readmissions: Leveraging Pharmacists to Improve Care and Reduce Costs by Karen L. Pellegrin, PhD, MBA

Thought Leaders' Corner: "What is an underappreciated strategy to reduce preventable readmissions?"

Industry News with briefs regarding Vidant Health, PMD Healthcare, TripleCare, Mount Sinai Health System, Contessa Health, Abbot, GetWellNetwork.

Catching up with... Hude Quan, MD, PhD

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