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Patient Wellbeing Closely Linked to 30-Day Readmission Rates
This article discusses how a person's wellbeing is a predictor for 30-day readmission rates. Patients with the highest wellbeing are less than half as likely to be readmitted than patients with inconsistent or poor wellbeing.
Web link    Date Added: 03/08/2023    Date Last Modified: Mar 8 2023 8:36AM  
How to Reduce Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions
In this video, Kimberly Jungkind, a health care quality improvement specialist with the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization, discusses how to reduce readmissions for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Jungkind shares resources that support patients with CHF to better manage their condition, and she offers innovative ideas for helping patients with CHF buy and cook foods that are heart healthy.
Video    Date Added: 02/16/2023    Date Last Modified: Feb 16 2023 9:00AM  
Jan. 25, Patient and Family Engagement (PFE) Strategies for Reducing Readmissions: Best-Practice Interventions, Tools and Resources
On Jan. 25, TMF QIN-QIO specialists discuss strategies for reducing readmissions and increasing patient and family engagement. Also addressed: care transitions, the TMF Patient and Family Engagement Network and the Partnership for Community Health Network.
Video    Date Added: 02/15/2023    Date Last Modified: Feb 15 2023 10:25AM  
Acute Care Provider Care Transitions Assessment
Work with your department leadership team to complete the following assessment. Each item relates to care transition elements that should be in place for a program to improve care transitions within your facility. This Care Transitions Implementation Assessment is supported by published evidence and best practices.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/24/2023    Date Last Modified: Jan 24 2023 9:53AM  
Emergency Department Care Transitions Assessment
Work with your department leadership team to complete the following assessment. Each item relates to care transition elements that should be in place for a program to improve care transitions within your facility. This Care Transitions Implementation Assessment is supported by published evidence and best practices.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/23/2023    Date Last Modified: Jan 30 2023 9:12AM  
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Care Transitions Assessment
Work with your department leadership team to complete the following assessment. Each item relates to care transition elements that should be in place for a program to improve care transitions within your facility. This Care Transitions Implementation Assessment is supported by published evidence and best practices.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/23/2023    Date Last Modified: Jan 30 2023 9:13AM  
Improve the Quality of Care Transitions Change Package
The TMF Quality Innovation Network, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, designed this change package to provide strategies to improve the quality of care transitions.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/17/2023    Date Last Modified: Jan 17 2023 6:13AM  
Admissions Guide for Partnership for Community Health members
This form can be used to help patients and their families talk with health care providers about being admitted to a new health care setting such as a long-term care facility, in-patient rehabilitation, skilled nursing facility or a long-term acute care facility.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 11/04/2022    Date Last Modified: Feb 28 2023 8:12AM  
Video: Reducing Avoidable Readmissions
Watch this video to learn how to implement lasting solutions to help your facility reduce avoidable readmissions.
Video    Date Added: 06/20/2022    Date Last Modified: Jun 20 2022 10:15AM  
Hospital Score Calculator
Calculate by QxMD developed this online calculator to help hospitals identify patients who are more likely to be readmitted. Once hospitals identify those patients, hospital discharge staff can give those patients needed instructions when discharged from the hospital to another care setting or home to help lessen the likelihood that they will be readmitted to the hospital.
Web link    Date Added: 04/20/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 20 2022 8:28AM  
Pathway Health – INTERACT
Scroll down on this webpage to find free resources you and your hospital staff can use to develop or strengthen your care transitions plans and processes.
Web link    Date Added: 04/20/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 20 2022 8:36AM  
Tool 2, Readmissions Review Tool
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed this document for health care staff to use to interview patients about their care experience and why they were readmitted.
Microsoft Word    Date Added: 04/20/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 20 2022 8:40AM  
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System: Social Needs Assessment
The Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. developed this multi-page questionnaire to help health care providers determine where their patients need assistance with a variety of medical and social health care needs.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 04/20/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 20 2022 8:46AM  
The EveryONE Project – Social Determinants of Health Guide to Social Needs Screening
The American Academy of Family Physicians created this handout to help care teams understand social determinants of health and how to develop a team-based care approach to identify specific patient needs and how to address those needs.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 04/14/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:30PM  
Social Needs Patient Action Plan
The American Academy of Family Physicians created this two-page fillable PDF document to allow a care team member to work directly with a patient to document the social determinants that may influence their health needs.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 04/14/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:30PM  
Upstream Risks Screening Tool and Guide
The AAMC created this five-page checklist for care team members to use to help prompt patients to provide more information about themselves, which can help identify areas of need that have historically not been addressed in the traditional clinical setting.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 04/14/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:29PM  
Hospital Readmission Reduction Intervention List
Download this one-page list of interventions you and your hospital staff can use to help reduce 30-day hospital readmissions.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 04/13/2022    Date Last Modified: Aug 9 2022 1:55PM  
Modified LACE Tool
The Modified LACE (Length of stay, Acuity of the Admission, Comorbidities, and Emergency room visits in the past six months) Tool can be used to predict and prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions.
Microsoft Excel    Date Added: 04/06/2022    Date Last Modified: Sep 15 2022 2:49PM  
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
Researchers at the Boston University Medical Center developed and tested a set of activities and materials for improving the hospital discharge process, which they called the Re-Engineered Discharge (RED). Research showed that the RED was effective at reducing readmissions and post-discharge emergency visits. RED consists of a set of 12 mutually reinforcing actions; outlined in this toolkit.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/24/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:15PM  
Your Discharge Planning Checklist
This easy-to-use checklist from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is for patients and their caregivers preparing to leave a hospital, nursing home or other care setting.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/24/2022    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:17PM  
CMS Hospital Discharge Planning Worksheet
This tool from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services includes a list of items that must be assessed during the on-site survey, in order to determine compliance with the Discharge Planning Condition of Participation.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 08/26/2021    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:16PM  
Hospital Readmissions Tracer Tool
Hospitals can use this Tracer Tool to survey and evaluate their processes for reducing patient readmissions, with the goal of providing safe, high-quality patient care.
Microsoft Word    Date Added: 05/12/2021    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:12PM  
Preventable Readmissions Top 10 Checklist
A checklist for hospitals to review current interventions, or initiate new ones, to aid readmissions reduction in your facility.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/08/2021    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:18PM  
The Care Transitions Program
The Care Transitions Program provides insights and tools for how to improve quality and manage risk during care hand-overs.
Web link    Date Added: 01/20/2021    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:21PM  
7-Day Readmission Audit Tool
This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet audit tool prompts clinical or quality staff members to review a list of factors commonly attributed to preventable hospital readmissions. The review can help you understand the kinds of barriers patients, families, and providers face during preparation of discharge to the post-hospital transitional care period and the circumstances leading patients to return to the hospital.
Microsoft Excel    Date Added: 09/08/2020    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:26PM  
10 Key ingredients for Trauma-informed care
Trauma-informed care acknowledges that understanding a patient’s life experiences is key to potentially improving engagement and outcomes while lowering unnecessary utilization.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/24/2020    Date Last Modified: Jan 24 2023 10:00AM  
7-Day Readmission Checklist and Audit Tool Instructions
This one-page audit tool prompts clinical or quality staff members to review a list of factors commonly attributed to preventable hospital readmissions. The review can help you understand the kinds of barriers patients, families, and providers face during preparation of discharge to the post-hospital transitional care period and the circumstances leading patients to return to the hospital.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 08/08/2018    Date Last Modified: May 10 2022 2:53PM  
Patient Interview Form: 30-Day Psychiatric Readmissions
Use this form for patients being readmitted to psychiatric care to determine the factors leading to readmission.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/11/2018    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:27PM  
Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
The Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) toolkit was developed to help facilities improve their medication reconciliation process. This toolkit provides a step-by-step guide to help health care providers ensure patients are properly educated about the medications they have been prescribed to help avoid medication errors and patient harm.
Web link    Date Added: 05/12/2015    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:17PM  
Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in coordination with Boston University Medical Center, has developed an online Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) tool kit. RED has been shown to be effective in reducing readmissions and post-hospital emergency department visits.
Web link    Date Added: 03/22/2013    Date Last Modified: Apr 14 2022 4:15PM  
Admissions Guide for Partnership for Community Health members (Spanish)
This form can be used to help patients and their families talk with health care providers about being admitted to a new health care setting such as a long-term care facility, in-patient rehabilitation, skilled nursing facility or a long-term acute care facility.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 02/28/2023    Date Last Modified: Feb 28 2023 8:28AM  
Discharge Guide for Partnership for Community Health members (Spanish)
This guide has a checklist of important items to discuss with your health care team when being discharged from a long-term care facility, in-patient rehabilitation, skilled nursing facility, or a long-term acute care facility.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 02/28/2023    Date Last Modified: Feb 28 2023 8:31AM