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Benchmark Study Identifies Top 3 Programs to Reduce Avoidable ER Visits

The Healthcare Intelligence Network wanted to find out the steps organizations are taking to reduce avoidable use of the hospital ER and more during its July 2010 Reducing Avoidable Emergency Room Visits e-survey. Benchmarks in Reducing Avoidable Emergency Room Visits is an executive summary of responses from 90 healthcare organizations offering information about reducing ER visits, the role of the primary care physician (PCP) in these efforts and programs to promote alternative health services.

Download this complimentary executive summary on Reducing Avoidable Emergency Room Visits.

NEWS FACTS:

Reducing Avoidable Emergency Room Visits highlights responses from 90 health plans, hospitals, employers and others on their programs to reduce readmissions, including:

• Populations responsible for the most ER visits;
  
  
• The biggest barriers to launching programs to reduce avoidable ER visits;
  
  
• Staffing changes used to discourage unnecesary visits;
  
  
• The role of the PCP in reducing ER visits;
  
  
• Outcomes and generated ROI from organizational programs;
  
  
• How to promote alternative health services;