By Michelle Andrews – One of the key indicators of the quality of a hospital’s care is how frequently its patients are readmitted within a month after being discharged.
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Memorial Hospital, a 97-bed community hospital in Marysville, Ohio, uses strategies from AHRQ’s Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) toolkit to help newly discharged patients follow their treatment plans and improve their health in order to avoid readmission to the hospital.
By Sarianne Gruber – The Excess Factor and Penalty Impasse – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and required CMS to penalize IPPS hospitals with high readmission rates.