This month, we take another look at the topic of readmissions.
Hospital readmissions continue to confront healthcare systems nationwide as a preventable patient harm. Currently, financial incentives to reduce readmissions impact hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). There are new opportunities to embark on collaborative journeys with other providers and community support systems. The end-result of such partnerships is to meet the goals we seek each day through improved quality, patient safety, and excellence of care.
Inpatient readmissions resources like bundles, toolkits, and data analysis can drive the changes for effective care transition. These resources can help achieve successful patient outcomes by lowering readmission rates while interfacing with all aspects of the healthcare continuum. The increased emphasis upon discharge preparation, post-discharge follow-up, and training the outpatient community has traversed many missing links in the healthcare system, and has brought to light gaps where patients may be getting lost.
With the assistance of your HSAG HIIN Clinical Improvement Advisor, please take another look at your hospital readmission cases and use the data analysis to help you find trends. Let HSAG HIIN help you identify the best tools and strategies to fit your needs so that together we can reach another threshold of harm reduction in reduced readmissions.
