Beginning in October 2012, in
accordance with the Affordable Care Act, Medicare will impose financial
penalties on hospitals that have excessive rates of readmissions. A similar
penalty against long term care (LTC) organizations has been proposed by the
Administration. As a result, the issue of rehospitalization has become a major
policy and clinical issue for both acute and LTC providers. This webinar presented the results of a report
commissioned by The Catholic Health Association, Hospital Readmissions:
Challenges and Opportunities for Catholic Senior Service Providers , to examine the most
common causes of avoidable readmissions from LTC facilities to hospitals and
ways LTC facilities can reduce these types of readmissions. The report also features several examples
of organizations that have employed various strategies to successfully reduce avoidable
readmissions. The report’s author, Howard Gleckman, will present the findings and Scott
La Rue, President and CEO of ArchCare and Eva Eng, Senior Vice
President for Program Standards and Development, ArchCare, discuss how they have addressed this
issue in their organizations.
Presenters: Howard Gleckman, Resident Fellow, Urban
Institute; Scott La Rue, President and Chief Executive Officer, ArchCare; and
Eva Eng, Senior Vice President for Program Standards and Development,
ArchCare.
This is a recording of the webinar held on November 19,
2012
Run time: 90 minutes
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