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Benchmarks in Reducing Hospital Readmissions: 107 Healthcare Organizations Share Strategies in Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions

Discover actions that could be taken to reduce hospital readmissions.

NEWS FACTS:

Benchmarks in Reducing Hospital Readmissions is a 50-page resource that analyzes the responses of 107 healthcare organizations to HIN's November 2009 Industry Survey on Reducing Readmissions. This resource provides metrics and measures on current and planned initiatives as well as lessons learned and results from early adopters of readmission reduction strategies. With hospital readmission trends under the microscope in healthcare reform, organizations will benefit from a review of these data to evaluate and plan programs and compare performance and utilization data.

Presenting data in more than 35 easy-to-follow graphs and tables, this resource is targeted to healthcare payors, employers, providers and any organization concerned with decreasing rates of hospital readmissions.

Learn more about approaches to reduce readmission rates.

• Content Overview: Benchmarks in Reducing Hospital Readmissions provides actionable information from 107 healthcare organizations on their efforts to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions in their most vulnerable and highest-utilization populations.
  
  
• Data Highlights:
  • Current and planned readmission reduction programs;
  • Populations and conditions targeted by readmission reduction efforts;
  • Tools and strategies to identify patients most at risk for returning to the hospital;
  • The patient care model most often included in respondents' readmission reduction strategies;
  • Strategies, protocols and policies to help prevent hospital readmissions in vulnerable populations;
  • The top five tasks performed at hospital discharge to minimize the chances of a patient returning to the hospital as well as other strategies to strengthen the hospital discharge process;
  • Roles and responsibilities in readmission avoidance program administration;
  • Emerging trends in reimbursement and incentives for reduction of readmission rates;
  • Overcoming barriers to reducing readmissions and to the launching of programs in this area;
  • The impact of hospital readmission management programs on healthcare utilization, member/patient satisfaction and ROI;
  • The complete November 2009 Reducing Hospital Readmissions survey tool;
  
  
  and much more. Organizations burdened by readmissions-related healthcare costs in their populations can learn from healthcare payors, purchasers, providers and others achieving success in this area.

• Contributing Authors: Connie Commander, president of Commander’s Premier Consulting Corporation; Mary Cooley, manager of case and disease management at Priority Health; Michele Gilbert, education coordinator of the heart failure team and pulmonary hypertension program at Hackensack University Medical Center; Gregg Lehman, president and CEO of Health Fitness Corporation and former president and CEO of INSPIRIS, Inc.; Doreen Salek, director of business operations of health services for Geisinger Health Plan; Thom Stambaugh, chief pharmacy officer and vice president of clinical programs and specialty pharmacy with CIGNA Pharmacy Management; Janet Tomcavage, vice president of health services for Geisinger Health Plan; and Dr. Marcia Wade, senior medical director for Aetna Medicare Medical Management.
  
  
• Report Formats: Print or PDF.

QUOTE ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

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"As hospital admission rates continue to capture the attention of payors and patients, organizations will benefit from this special report in discovering how other healthcare organizations have reduced their readmission rates, controlled healthcare costs and improved discharge processes."

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