Commonwealth Fund Publishes Action Guide for Hospitals on Reducing Readmissions
The Commonwealth Fund has recently published a
guide designed to serve as a starting point for hospital leaders to assess, prioritize, implement, and monitor strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions. This document is likely to prove useful to home care providers that partner with hospitals to achieve the same goal.
The guide is meant to better equip hospitals to address the readmissions that are unplanned and potentially the result of missteps in care either during the hospitalization or in the period immediately following the hospitalization. This document suggests strategies that hospitals could pursue at different stages of the care continuum to reduce avoidable readmissions.