COMMUNITY-BASED CARE TRANSITIONS KERN COUNTY
Post date: Feb 9, 2013 6:38:40 AM
Please join us as we continue the Conversation to reduce readmissions:
- Wednesday, February 20, 2013; 9:00-11:30 am; Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Learning Center Lecture Hall
- Wednesday, April 17, 2013; 9-11:30 am; Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Founder's Hall Auditorium
- Wednesday, August 21, 2013; 9-11:30 am; Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Founder's Hall Auditorium
- Wednesday, October 16, 2013; 9-11:30 am; Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Founder's Hall Auditorium
- Who Should Attend
- Hospital Nurse Leaders, Case Managers, Discharge Planners, Utilization Review Managers, Nursing Home Leaders, Home Health Providers, local Area Agency on Aging Leadership
- Presenter
- Chad Vargas, BS
- Clinical Project Manager, Care Transitions
- Health Services Advisory Group of California, Inc. For more information:
- Lynne Ashbeck, MA, MS, RD
- Regional Vice President
- Hospital Council of Northern and Central California 559-221-6154
- lashbeck@hospitalcouncil.net
- Who Should Attend
- We Know That...
- • One in four Medicare patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities from hospitals are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.
- CMS has implemented financial incentives and penalties to reduce potentially avoidable hospital transfers (including pay-for-performance).
- A patient leaving the hospital makes an average of “ten stops” across the health care provider “continuum”.
- • One in four Medicare patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities from hospitals are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days.
