Catalog Number : ngd1713
Title : Reducing Readmissions
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 9-16-2016
Webplay Price : $ 150 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

What things can a hospital do to prevent unnecessary readmissions? CMS has found that 2 out of 3 hospitals are being financially penalized for not preventing readmissions under the new federal law.This webinar will discuss the impact of this new federal law and discuss the issue of how to prevent hospital readmissions.

Target Audience: 

• CEO
• CFO
• Chief Medical Officer
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Compliance Officers
• members of the team to prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Nurse Educators
• Joint Commission Director
• Director of Regulatory Affairs
• Risk Managers
• Hospital Legal Counsel
• Performance Improvement Director and Staff
• Director of Health Information Management
• Social Workers
• Discharge Planners
• Transition Nurses
• Dieticians
• anyone else who is interested in preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss the importance of getting the discharge summary into the hands of the primary care physician before the first post hospital visit
• Recall that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reduces payments to hospitals that have a higher than average rate of hospital readmissions after October 1, 2012
• Recall two tips that a hospital can do to reduce unnecessary readmissions
• Describe that hospitals should have a team assembled to look at ways to prevent unnecessary readmissions
• Recall the importance of using teach-back to make sure the patient understands the discharge instructions

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• CMS Value Based Purchasing
• Hospital readmissions and payment
• MI, CHF, and pneumonia 30 days admissions
• Why this will cost hospitals a lot of money
• AHRQ patient safety primer
• Readmissions and discharges
• Preventing readmissions
• CMS pamphlet for patients on how to avoid unnecessary readmissions
• AHA Reducing Avoidable Hospital Admissions
• AHA classifications of readmissions
• Prioritizing improvement opportunities
• Strategies to reduce readmissions during hospitalization
• Strategies post acute care technologies
• NQF Safe Practice on discharge system
• QIO Transition in Care 9th scope of work
• IHI initiatives to reduce unnecessary readmissions
• Bonus Tools
  • Additional resources will provided on different transition studies such as; RED project to reengineer the discharge process, care transitions intervention (Coleman), transitional care model (Naylor), STARR , GRACE, Guided Care, etc.
  • Additional resources will be the CMS Hospital CoPs on discharge planning, Joint Commission discharge planning standards and the questions on the CMS revised worksheet for hospitals on the discharge planning standards

Contact Hours:

• Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 1.8 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339
• All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 1.5 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program

Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.