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	"The patient and family caregiver’s understanding of their care plan and how to manage their symptoms is crucial to preventing readmissions. In our work, we place an emphasis on patients’ early identification and response to health care risks and symptoms in order to achieve longer term, positive outcomes and avoid adverse and untoward events that lead to readmissions. But we have also learned that environment and socioeconomic factors also play a major role here. We need to communicate effectively with our patients, such that they understand the plan of care and will then be capable of being a part of implementing that care plan with us (the nurse). If we can begin to intervene during an acute episode with an in-hospital assessment, we can collaborate with patients early on to build the care team that is needed to reduce adverse events, prevent (or limit) functional decline, and prepare a streamlined, evidence-based plan of care for these vulnerable older adults.” Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
	"If a hospital were to increase its total patient experience score on discharge planning from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile, this increase would be associated with an absolute decrease in 30-day readmission rate of 2.6% for AMI, 3.1% for heart failure, and 2.3% for pneumonia." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 1, Number 9, October, 2012, Patient Satisfaction and Readmission Rates
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	Key Lessons from Hospitals with Low Readmissions by Sharon Silow-Carroll, MSW, MBA; Jennifer Edwards, DrPH; and Aimee Lashbrook, JD, MHSA Patient Satisfaction and Readmission Rates by Seth Glickman, MD The Editor’s Corner: Introducing Jeff Lemieux; Planetree Transition Initiative Social Media and Readmissions by Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD; Shandra Brown-Levey, Jessica Payne-Murphy, and Idalia Massa Thought Leader’s Corner: "Are there any HIPAA concerns when it comes to patients having a number of different transitions between home and institutional settings? "Industry News with briefs regarding CMS, AHA, MedPAC, Vree Health, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Catching Up With…Mary Naylor, PhD, RN Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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