Kelea Nardini, RN, Director of Parkview Home Care in Pueblo, Colorado, raves about her new patient education system and cites it as the most important tools that has helped drop Parkview’s 60-day hospital readmission rate down to 13.2%, nearly 4 full points under the national average, and simultaneously driven their HH-CAHPS scores above the […]
by Liz Seegert New care models, partnerships and patient-centered care were frequent topics at last month’s World Health Care Congress. One panel discussion, featuring executives from the Joselin Diabetes Center, Mass General Hospital, Texas Health Resources and Kaiser Permanente, explored mobile apps, ACOs, connectivity among providers, payers, and consumers, and innovations to encourage consumers […]
In our lead article this week, based on a Department of Health and Human Services press release, we published a link to the complete list of 106 new ACOs. At first glance, it would appear that individual physicians are taking the lead in forming new Accountable Care Organizations. Upon closer examination of the HHS […]
