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	"Whenever a patient is released from a hospital, a discharge summary must be made. A discharge summary, in essence, provides a summary of the patient's stay including the procedures/treatments provided by the hospital, instructions/rehabilitation orders, medication lists, test results, etc. Basically, anything that is pertinent to the patient's recovery from his/her health issue while at the hospital is included in the discharge summary. The risk of rehospitalization may decrease when patients are assessed following discharge by physicians who have received the discharge summary. Numerous experts and medical professionals have suggested that the creation and transmission of a high-quality discharge summary to outpatient clinicians has a strong potential to improve the transition from hospital to home and make the possibility of readmission more remote." -Dr. Calvin G. Tate, Physician, Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, Atlanta, GA
	"According to a recent report by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, the conditions with the largest number of 30-day all-cause readmissions for Medicaid patients are 1) mood disorders, 2) schizophrenia, and 3) diabetes." Excerpted from: Readmissions News, Volume 4, Number 10, October 2015, "Reducing Medicaid Readmission Rates through Community Partnerships" by Peter Schafer
	Hospital Readmissions Following HCT Severe in Nature Specialty Pharmacy Times, October 13, 2015
	Docs Are Leaving Behind Federal Dollars to Pay for Coordinated Care Modern Healthcare, October 13, 2015
	Smartphone Interventions Help COPD Patients Avoid Hospital Readmissions FierceMobileHealthcare, October 12, 2015
	Why Focusing on Hospital Readmission Causes is Essential RevCycleIntelligence, October 12, 2015
	Medicare Tests New Quality Measure: Readmission Rates for Heart Failure The Hospitalist, October 6, 2015
	Same-Hospital Readmission Rates as a Measure of Pediatric Quality of Care (Abstract) JAMA Pediatrics, October 1, 2015
	National Campaigns to Reduce Readmissions: What Have We Learned? The Commonwealth Fund, October 1, 2015
	Reducing Medicaid Readmission Rates through Community Partnerships by Peter Schafer Combat 30-Day Hospital Readmission Penalties with Predictive Analytics by Dan Hogan Post Acute Networks Becoming the Norm to Reduce Readmissions as CMS Looks to Provider Community to Lead the Way by Dr. Josh Luke Newly Released Data Shows Overspending In Post-Acute Care: SNFs Associated With Higher Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary Measures (MSPB) by Chuck Bongiovanni, MSW, MBA, NCRP, CSA, CFE Thought Leaders' Corner: What role do discharge summaries have in reducing preventable readmissions? Industry News with briefs regarding AdvantagePlusCaregivers.com, Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services, New Jersey Innovation Institute, PCCI and The US Oncology Network, TeamHealth, and the Community Care Alliance of Illinois. Catching up with ... Dan Hogan Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Readmissions News, or find out more
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