IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizient ® today released a report identifying the impact of social determinants of health and local market dynamics on hospital readmission rates and emergency ...

For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have ...

Prostate cancer patients who underwent radical prostatectomy with different techniques all experienced similar readmission rates, according to a Renal and Urology News report. In a study of more than ...

Before 2017, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital – an urban, academic safety-net hospital within the San Francisco Health Network – struggled with some of the highest 30-day readmission rates in ...

A group of Johns Hopkins physicians and researchers today published an article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine suggesting that data on mortality and hospital readmission used by the United States ...

Questions have emerged regarding studies finding hospital readmission rates for Medicare Advantage enrollees are higher than those in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Researchers reviewed the ...

The University of Michigan’s flagship hospital has reduced its Medicare/Medicaid penalties for hospital readmissions over the past two years, reflecting sustained efforts to improve patient outcomes ...

Heart failure patients discharged from the hospital with a reduced level of a common hormone produced by the heart had significantly lower rates of readmission and lower death rates, according to a ...

Mortality rates have increased significantly across Pennsylvania hospitals since 2019, particularly for sepsis patients. No hospital in Erie County reported significantly lower-than-expected mortality ...

A new study suggests that receiving text-based 'nudges' could help remind patients to refill their prescriptions, which may also help to reduce readmission rates.