30 Day Readmission Rate

Readmissions has become a spotlight in the healthcare world. “The problem of readmissions to the hospital is receiving increased attention as a potential way to address problems in quality of care, cost of care and care transitions. Interventions are underway to reduce hospital readmissions at the state and national level” (Elixhauser & Steiner, 2010). “Approximately 20% of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted within 30 days of discharge and these readmissions have been estimated to cost the American public > $15 billion per year. The Patient Protection Affordable Care Ace of 2010 has created new incentives to reduce admissions using the publicly reported measures because hospitals with high readmission rates can lose

Nursing staff, Social Workers, and case managers play an important role in the discharge planning which also correlates with patient safety outcomes. Case managers and social workers work face to face with...

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