Reforming Readmissions:

Action Steps to Cut Costs and Enhance Quality

Continuing education credits have been applied for nurses, case managers and disability management specialists.

About the Webinar

According to Medicare data, one in five patients discharged from a hospital is back in the hospital within 30 days. Unplanned and unnecessary rehospitalizations cost the health care system billions of dollars every year—accounting for roughly one-fifth ($17.4 billion in 2004) of Medicare hospital costs—and they are a marker of poor discharge planning, inadequate follow-up care and lost opportunities in the management of chronic illness.

The Case In Point Webinar series approaches the baleful issue of readmissions from both insurance and hospital perspectives to present a wide-angle action guide that will help you and your organization implement successful discharge planning and robust follow-up care to secure best-practice transitions of care that will keep your patients in charge of their health—and out of the hospital.

The program faculty includes experts from the payer and provider sides of the aisle, offering a 360-degree view of what’s at stake and who can make the changes to improve the system. Included is an exploration of Project RED, a first-class hospital discharge program, presented by discharge advocate Lynn Schipelliti.

If patient quality weren’t enough, the vast amounts of dollars at stake make readmissions one of the most pressing areas of prevention that we as a health care community can approach head-on.

Our Webinar Will Answer These Questions:

• How can case management departments improve readmission rates?
• What are industry-leading organizations doing to address readmissions?
• What does a best-practice hospital discharge planning program look like?
• How can I implement discharge planning into my organization?
• How can I secure successful transitions of care to maintain the health of patients with chronic conditions?
• What is Project RED and how can I begin to implement its best practices?
• How can I prevent unnecessary readmissions early through inpatient management?
• How can I present the case to leadership that readmissions are leading quality indicators?
• Who should be the point person in heading up a discharge planning program?
• How can I measure readmission rates?
  
  

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