Best practices to avoid nursing facility rehospitalization
By Patti Cullen, CAE | September 8, 2023 | SNF/NF providers
Sometimes the biggest challenge is knowing how to successfully operationalize best practices.
Use this tool from Superior Health to guide you through the steps necessary to avoid 30-day rehospitalizations. This document is intended to be utilized as a tool to operationalize evidence-based best practices to prevent 30-day rehospitalizations. Review each action item, assign a team member to assume responsibility and identify gaps that need to be addressed. Benefits of utilizing this document include the following:
- Decrease 30-day rehospitalization rate
- Improve outcomes
- Improve staff accountability
- Improve communication between SNF and referring hospitals
Superior Health Quality Alliance is the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services serving multiple states, including Minnesota.
Patti Cullen, CAE | President/CEO |
pcullen@careproviders.org | 952-851-2487