For more than five years, the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative supported Avoid Readmissions Through Collaboration (ARC), a local, multi-hospital collaborative dedicated to improving transitional care and reducing preventable readmissions in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the five-year collaborative, hospitals identified, implemented and shared best practices to reduce avoidable readmissions, which eliminated over 9,000 readmissions, saving more than $83 million in health care expenditures.
Recently, ARC convened more than 300 transitional care professionals to discuss how hospitals can improve their relationships with community-based organizations in a mutual effort to reduce hospital readmission rates. Presentations featured strategies on how to better transition patients out of the hospital and back to their homes or other health care settings and how to work in partnership with CBOs. Other topics included: partnering with community paramedicine and mobile integrated health care; faith-based and neighborhood partnerships; hospitals working with home health and nursing homes; medication reconciliation and adherence; community coaching models; and accountable care communities.
Learn more about ARC and free available resources here.
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