Readmissions Bulletin
Complimentary from the publishers of Readmissions News                    August 2018
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  "HPBC [home-based primary care] is proven to reduce health care costs for chronically-ill patients by keeping them at home, where they can be better cared for. In fact, according to figures from the Strategic Healthcare Programs in California, making more than one home health visit in the first seven days reduces the likelihood of readmission to as low as 11.4 percent.”
-Thomas Cornwell, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI).
  
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  "...the odds of hospital readmissions within 30 days of the patients’ original visits was 14 percent higher in the group whose physicians did not follow the [computerized] alerts."

Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 7, Number 8, August 2018, Industry News: "Study: Patients Do Better When Physicians Follow Computerized Alerts."
 		  
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Using the New CoP QAPI to Reduce Readmissions

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