For seniors recently discharged from a hospital stay, research finds that simply walking around could help older adults lessen their chances of a return visit. Outfitting 111 adults aged 65 and older with ankle-bound “step activity monitors,” researchers tracked seniors’ mobility during and immediately following hospital stays, then published their findings in The Journals of […]
Category: Hospitals
Chicago-based real estate investment trust Ventas Inc. (NYSE:VTR) is “looking hard” at hospital real estate as a new investment sector, CEO Debra Cafaro said in an interview with Crain’s Chicago Business. Public companies only own 10% of the $1 trillion, “highly fragmented” healthcare real estate market. Cafaro expects a continued transfer of properties from the […]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a key driver in reducing the national rate of hospital readmissions of Medicare beneficiaries within a month of discharge, according to a top Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official. As ACA implementation continues to take force, it has already made “significant progress,” CMS said in a Thursday […]
Hospitals and their community allies made little progress between 2008 and 2010 in reducing hospital readmissions for seniors, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and geographic location plays a large role in determining the rate of rehospitalization. In 2010, one in six patients returned to the hospital within 30 days […]
Despite the importance placed on hospital readmissions for older patients and the efforts to prevent recurring hospital stays for those receiving care under Medicare, there is little connection between the rate of readmissions and mortality of those patients, the Journal of the American Medical Association writes. Based on a study of nearly 5,000 hospitals, researchers […]
House calls are making a comeback with a revamped, modernized model initiated by hospital healthcare providers looking for ways to prevent rehospitalizations and avoid Medicare reimbursement penalties. The latest in the ongoing efforts to reduce re-hospitalizations, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that providers are sending teams of doctors, nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists to […]
As policy makers and institutions clamor for a way to increase quality of care during these transitional phases, one study suggest that improving nurses’ work environments and staffing may be effective in preventing readmissions. Nurse staffing levels and work environment were found to have a significant impact among Medicare patients readmitted for various heart […]
Seniors hospitalized for intensive care illnesses are more likely to become diagnosed with dementia in the years following discharge, according to new research from BioMed Central’s Critical Care. Taking a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries over age 65, the study found that dementia was newly diagnosed in 17.8% of the 25,368 patients who received intensive care […]
Identifying care gaps and bridging them through a care collaboration has helped one nonprofit senior living organization reduce the number of emergency room visits and rehospitalizations among its residents to a nearby hospital. Hospitals are more conscious than ever of the need to provide quality care and prevent readmissions now that Medicare is docking reimbursements […]
Unnecessary rehospitalizations cost Medicare millions of dollars each year, and with many seniors cycling from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and back again, it’s paramount for nursing homes to figure out how to reduce readmissions. As many as 60% of these rehospitalizations are preventable, writes Forbes, and they cost taxpayers millions of dollars each year. […]
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