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Bringing Hospital And Community Together: Interventions To Bridge The Transitional Care Gap, Jeremy Yates
Bringing Hospital And Community Together: Interventions To Bridge The Transitional Care Gap, Jeremy Yates
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As healthcare spending continues to increase and overall quality lags in comparison to other developed countries, hospital readmission has been targeted to increase quality while decreasing cost. Components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have placed an emphasis on preventative and transitional care which has created programs aimed at reducing readmission, including the Community Health Access Programs (CHAP). One program in St. Louis, Missouri consisted of advanced practice paramedics and an occupational therapy assistant that performed discharge follow-up through in-home, in-office, and telephone visits. An in-depth program evaluation can create a foundation to build other programs in communities …
Abstracts From The 26th Annual Health Care Systems Research Network Conference, April 8–10, 2020
Abstracts From The 26th Annual Health Care Systems Research Network Conference, April 8–10, 2020
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
The Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) is made up of community-based care delivery systems with a shared mission to improve health and health care through research. The network’s annual conference serves as a forum for attendees to disseminate study findings, stimulate collaborations, and share insights about conducting research in real-world care settings. Although this year’s live conference was cancelled to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the oral and poster abstracts accepted for presentation at HCSRN 2020 are published in this open access supplement to Volume 7, Issue 1 of the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, the …