Helping patients stay out of the hospital once they’ve been discharged has been a longtime quality-improvement priority for many hospitals and health networks. Now it’s become a financial priority, too, thanks to provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that set penalties for hospitals with higher-thanaverage rates of avoidable readmissions for patients with specified conditions.
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