Hospitals
AARP: 20-33% Medicare beneficiaries readmitted to hospitals
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009“Another serious problem we’ve been hearing about lately is that of hospitals discharging older patients without any follow-up, or ‘transitional,’ services. One of every five Medicare beneficiaries is readmitted within 30 days of discharge; and one of every three, within 90 days – often because of poor communication between patients, caregivers and healthcare providers.” –…
Cutting Repeat Hospital Trips — Simple Idea, Hard to Pull Off
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009PITTSFIELD, Mass. — One prescription for slashing billions of dollars from America’s health-care spending will come down to questions like this: Can hospitals persuade discharged patients such as Betty Beauchaine to pass up a Fourth of July hot dog?…
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Hospitals Expected to Agree to $155 Billion in Healthcare Savings
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Three press organizations wrote good pieces on the same subject. Here are the links to all of them.
The nation’s hospitals agreed last night to contribute $155 billion over 10 years toward the cost of insuring the 47 million Americans without health coverage, according to two industry sources..
Washington Post :http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070604053.html