Comments for Pareto Health http://www.paretohealth.com Improve Patient Satisfaction. Reduce Avoidable Readmissions. Achieve Better Outcomes. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on Research: Redefining Readmission Risk Factors for General Medicine Patients by Lisa Stansbury http://www.paretohealth.com/2011/03/29/research-redefining-readmission-risk-factors-for-general-medicine-patients/#comment-77 Lisa Stansbury Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:48:48 +0000 http://www.paretohealth.com/?p=530#comment-77 Thank Konrad -- Please do share it far and wide! BTW, we just posted a CMS care transitions hospital physician's experience on how simple and clear doctor-to-patient communication can help save patients from readmissions. It's a new blog post and pretty eye opening re: how much harm simple miscommunication can cause. Keep up the great work Konrad! Thank Konrad — Please do share it far and wide! BTW, we just posted a CMS care transitions hospital physician’s experience on how simple and clear doctor-to-patient communication can help save patients from readmissions. It’s a new blog post and pretty eye opening re: how much harm simple miscommunication can cause. Keep up the great work Konrad!

]]> Comment on Research: Redefining Readmission Risk Factors for General Medicine Patients by konrad.crabtree http://www.paretohealth.com/2011/03/29/research-redefining-readmission-risk-factors-for-general-medicine-patients/#comment-71 konrad.crabtree Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:51:43 +0000 http://www.paretohealth.com/?p=530#comment-71 Thanks for sharing, Lisa. If you don't mind, I'll create a separate post highlighting this form so that others can find it more easily. Thanks for sharing, Lisa. If you don’t mind, I’ll create a separate post highlighting this form so that others can find it more easily.

]]> Comment on Research: Redefining Readmission Risk Factors for General Medicine Patients by Lisa Stansbury http://www.paretohealth.com/2011/03/29/research-redefining-readmission-risk-factors-for-general-medicine-patients/#comment-70 Lisa Stansbury Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:57:57 +0000 http://www.paretohealth.com/?p=530#comment-70 This discharge risk assessment tool was designed during a CMS project to reduce avoidable readmission in Louisiana It is free and available to anyone who wants to download it...CMS is just now pulling together the entire toolkit, but wouldn't want anyone to have to wait. CMS found it to be a useful tool, and the readmissions reduction project was successful. http://louisianaqio.eqhs.org/PDF/Care%20Transitions/Discharge%20Risk%20Assessment.pdf This discharge risk assessment tool was designed during a CMS project to reduce avoidable readmission in Louisiana It is free and available to anyone who wants to download it…CMS is just now pulling together the entire toolkit, but wouldn’t want anyone to have to wait. CMS found it to be a useful tool, and the readmissions reduction project was successful.

http://louisianaqio.eqhs.org/PDF/Care%20Transitions/Discharge%20Risk%20Assessment.pdf

]]> Comment on For Hospitals & Payers by Readmissions Blog moving to new home | Hospital Readmissions http://www.paretohealth.com/medfollow-for-hospitals-payers/#comment-68 Readmissions Blog moving to new home | Hospital Readmissions Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:05:53 +0000 http://www.paretohealth.com/?page_id=8#comment-68 [...] The blog will be hosted by Pareto Health, which offers the MedFollow post-discharge telephonic follow-up service. MedFollow’s nurses and pharmacists can extend the reach of your organization’s readmission reduction programs by providing patient outreach for medication reconciliation, medication adherence, discharge instruction compliance, PCP coordination, and social services needs.  Click here to learn more about Pareto Health’s MedFollow Service. [...] [...] The blog will be hosted by Pareto Health, which offers the MedFollow post-discharge telephonic follow-up service. MedFollow’s nurses and pharmacists can extend the reach of your organization’s readmission reduction programs by providing patient outreach for medication reconciliation, medication adherence, discharge instruction compliance, PCP coordination, and social services needs.  Click here to learn more about Pareto Health’s MedFollow Service. [...]

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