Remote Care Management Program Leads To 50% Reduction In Hospital Readmission Rates For Cardiac Patients

Cardiac Solutions — a physician-owned care provider that specializes in cardiac health services — achieved a 50% reduction in hospital cardiovascular readmission rates. These rates are the result of Cardiac Solutions’ use of remote patient monitoring and chronic care management through a partnership with MD Revolution. Cardiac Solutions examined 26,689 patients. The organization saw a […]

DispatchHealth’s Hospital-At-Home Program Reduces Readmission Rates By Nearly 50%

DispatchHealth’s Advanced Care program — a home-based alternative to hospital care — was able to lower 30-day readmission rates, checking in at almost 50% below the national average. That’s one of the key takeaways from a recent DispatchHealth study, which detailed the outcomes of the company’s Advanced Care program over the course of an 18-month […]

Home Health Providers Curb Hospital Readmissions, Improve Visit Efficiency With Predictive Analytics

With widespread reimbursement uncertainty and staffing shortages, home health providers are looking for ways to offer high-quality and more efficient care. For some operators, this has meant embracing predictive analytics and the powerful tools that have helped revolutionize other industries. Over time, such technology can specifically work wonders in curbing costly hospital readmissions and maximizing […]

How A Home Health Provider Slashed Its Readmission Rate By Nearly Half

At-Home Health Care — Sparta Community Hospital’s home health segment — has made successful care transitions a priority in an effort to lower rehospitalizations and ER visits. Sparta Community Hospital is located in Southern Illinois and is a 25-bed full-service acute care medical facility. At-Home Health Care is a Medicare certified home health agency that […]

Why Hospitals with Nearby Home Health Agencies Have Higher Readmission Rates

A new study from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that hospitals with a greater local supply of home health agencies were associated with increased readmissions. One of the reasons readmission rates were higher in those areas may be due to frequent staffing changes and other interruptions in care, according to the study’s lead […]

How Georgetown Home Care Continues to Lower Readmission Rates for Hospital Partners

The Washington D.C.-based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. In a pilot program, it reduced readmissions by 44%. But really, it started when GHC […]

AccentCare Uses AI to Track Social Determinants of Health, Reduce Readmissions

Home health providers typically have to learn about their patients’ social determinants of health on the fly, quickly picking up on risk factors like access to transportation and proximity to healthy food following a hospital discharge. One in-home care giant is turning to artificial intelligence for a head start. Earlier this month, AccentCare Inc. revealed […]

Georgetown Home Care Hospital Collaboration Program Reduces Readmissions by 44%

Providing both assistance and assurance to patients after being discharged from the hospital can drastically curb readmissions — and significantly cut health care spending in turn. That was the goal of a Georgetown Home Care (GHC) pilot program launched earlier this year. GHC’s pilot program achieved promising results. Overall, patients discharged after spinal surgery at […]