How Home Health Systems Can Use Home Care To Reduce Readmissions
When integrated into the continuum of care, home health helps ensure that patients discharged from acute care settings and skilled nursing facilities do not suffer relapses that require rehospitalization
Stakes are high with hospitals and health systems facing financial penalties under Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program for a half-dozen conditions including heart attack, pneumonia, and coronary artery bypass graft. Beyond the HRRP penalties, readmissions increase the total cost of care.
As a way to address the readmissions challenge, savvy healthcare clinical leaders at health systems can use home health divisions to reduce hospital readmissions. When properly integrated into the continuum of care at health systems and hospitals, home health becomes a pivotal component of ensuring that patients discharged from acute care settings and skilled nursing facilities do not suffer relapses that require rehospitalization.
In coordination with a health system’s hospitalists and primary care physicians, home health divisions can help avoid patient readmissions by deploying nurses, physical therapists, and personal care attendants into patients’ homes after discharge. In addition to skilled nursing and physical therapy, some home health divisions perform infusions, which offers a relatively high-cost service in a low-cost setting.
Home health provides services that can keep patients from having to return to a hospital.
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