Monday, October 1, marked a date hospitals knew was coming since March 2010: the beginning of federal fiscal year (FY) 2013, and the initiation of the CMS Readmission Reduction Program. The ...

Patients with HIV face a significantly higher 30-day readmission risk following hospitalization for HF or AMI compared with those without HIV.

The issue of unnecessary hospital readmissions is now front and center in the national conversation about the quality of health care. Thanks to Medicare’s readmissions reduction program, hospitals are ...

New study demonstrates significant improvements in medication adherence and 6% lower odds of 30-day readmissions at ...

Unplanned hospital readmissions in Massachusetts represent a significant cost, not only to the health system but to patients and their families, according to the findings in a Center for Health ...

The reasons hospital and health system leaders should be concerned with driving down preventable readmissions are clear. Under healthcare reform, healthcare providers with high levels of preventable ...

In a study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, pairing community health workers with hospital inpatients reduced readmissions nearly 50%. Pairing community health workers with adult ...

Hospital readmission rates are a constant source of researchers’ and academics’ analysis, particularly as American hospitals face increased pressure to reduce avoidable readmissions under the federal ...

This commentary proposes a bundled measure of unplanned post-hospital care to better assess the true impact of readmissions reductions programs and to avoid unintended consequences. We examined ...

Public health programs and initiatives that aim to lower hospital admission rates may also reduce readmissions, despite the fact that the patients in communities that have adopted these programs tend ...

While proper nutrition is vital to staying healthy, its importance is being felt by hospitals and health systems, as well. A new study by Advocate Health Care and Abbott found that optimizing ...

New research shows that in-hospital delirium patients are vulnerable during the early posthospitalization period. In-hospital delirium is a predictor of readmission, emergency department visits, and ...