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Hospital Field Realignment Not Driving High Premium IncreasesFeatures of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other market trends are driving a major realignment of the healt
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typically readmitted for something completely different. University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Medical Center, in Little Rock, is working to reduce medication-related readmissions, which have…
'Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care' expands on four strategies originally identified in the report, 'Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future.' These strategies were identified as major priorities for hospitals a
April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health Foundation, National Minority Health Month addresses the needs of African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans and other minority populations. To commemorate the occasion, Equity of Care is…
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 percent.
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate for heart failure patients. In 2010, the rate for all payer patients was 32.4 percent. Through a partnership with Illinois Hospital Association, the facility implemented Project RED. The goal was to…
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable ambulance transfers, ED visits and hospitalizations for patients who used the ED more than 10 visits per year. For a defined group of high-frequency patients, interventions by a nurse-led case…
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients who present with one or more of the four diagnoses under core measures receive 100 percent appropriate and timely evidence-based care.