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May/June 2019
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Positioning Home Care Companies As Chronic Care Management Partners
• Increasing Patient Engagement Strategies
• Exploring Readmission Data
• Chronic Care Capacity Coaching
• Managing ED Visits
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Does the Current 30-Day Readmission Penalty Over-Simplify “High-Risk” Timing
Findings suggest that the 30-days following hospital discharge are not the same with regard to what influences outcomes for sick patients.
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine findings suggest readmissions in the week after discharge are more preventable and more likely to be caused by factors over which the hospital has direct control than those later in the 30-day window.
Read more ...Home Health Value-Based Purchasing: The Top 5 Things You Should Know
By: Connie Christopher, RN, BSN, Connie Christopher, RN, BSN, Director Care Transitions, FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Inc.
FirstHealth Home Care, a division of FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a comprehensive not-for-profit health care system in the mid-Carolinas, has always kept the focus on high quality patient care and actionable data to drive performance improvement. With the advent of the five year Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model Pilot in 2016, FirstHealth was already demonstrating consistently high outcomes.
Read more ...Analyzing the Readmission Cycle: News Ways to Look at Preventability
By: Lisa Remington, President Remington Health Strategy Group, Publisher The Remington Report
Significant studies are questioning whether a 30-day interval for readmissions is the best measurement for penalties. We provide findings that can help providers look at their own data and explore solutions.
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