Do you have the right data to collaborate with your post-acute network on managing readmissions?

In order to manage readmissions and minimize financial penalties, your organization needs to analyze the greatest hospitalization challenges facing both your home health agency (HHA) and skilled nursing (SNF) network.

When reviewing readmissions data at the SNF or HHA level, it is important to consider many underlying metrics that contribute to hospital readmissions.

Severity of illness scores, days from hospital discharge, and readmissions due to other therapy-related issues (such as falls, lack of medication adherence, and skin integrity) all factor into readmission rates and are important to review to take proper action steps.

Use CareStat to lower readmissions:

• Review 2, 7, 30, 60, and 90-day hospitalization rates
• Gauge hospitalizations by severity of illness to understand predictable readmissions
• Analyze agency and facility-specific reports on quality trends and performance
• Drill down to the individual patients that make up your hospitalization scores
• Identify patients at risk of hospitalization by reviewing high risk metrics