Industry Note:
Case Study: Hospital Uses Home Care To Curb Readmissions
Published on Fri Apr 19, 2013
Medicare’s new payment system for hospitals, which penalizes them for high readmission rates, is motivating another hospital to turn to home health for help with the problem. Dickinson County Healthcare System in Iron Mountain, Mich., is providing one free follow-up home visit to at-risk patients discharged from Dickinson County Memorial Hospital, reports the Iron Mountain Daily News. A nurse from [...]