{"id":1151,"date":"2016-08-17T04:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2016-08-17T04:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:16:20","slug":"firstlight-hospital-readmission-reduction-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/2016\/08\/17\/firstlight-hospital-readmission-reduction-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The FirstLight Hospital Readmission Reduction Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2016\/08\/Readmission-Graphic.jpg\" alt=\"Readmission Graphic\" width=\"320\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1152\" \/>Healthcare reform initiatives have mandated\u00a0reducing preventable hospital readmissions,\u00a0and the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) is now implementing\u00a0reimbursement penalties\u00a0to hospitals with relatively higher rates of\u00a0Medicare readmissions.<\/p>\n<p>Under the\u00a0Hospital\u00a0Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), hospitals with readmission rates that exceed the national average are penalized by a\u00a0reduction in payments across all of their Medicare admissions \u2014 not just those which resulted in\u00a0readmissions.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, studies\u00a0show that hospitals can engage in several activities to lower their rate of readmissions. For example, hospitals that\u00a0clarify\u00a0patient discharge instructions and\u00a0coordinate with home\u00a0care providers and patients\u2019 primary care\u00a0physicians have\u00a0been able to achieve 20-50% reductions in hospital readmissions.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest concern of hospital health care providers is the same as ours at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FirstLight Home Care<\/a> \u2014 the health and well-being of those we care for. Unplanned hospitalizations and readmission of those with acute and chronic diagnoses is a challenge in today&#8217;s continuum of care, causing patients unnecessary suffering and the system increased costs.<\/p>\n<h5>FirstLight Home Care Reduces\u00a0Readmission Rates by:<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>Improving quality patient outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing the patient experience by keeping them in the comfort of home.<\/li>\n<li>Lowering costs by rescuing healthcare institutions from HRRP readmission penalties.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5>How Does\u00a0Non-Medical In-Home Care from FirstLight Help?<\/h5>\n<p>By creating a personalized patient-focused strategy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FirstLight Home Care<\/a> educates\u00a0the patient, family and caregivers and provides 24-hour availability and response for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assisting with special diet meal preparation.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring exercise and hydration instructions are followed.<\/li>\n<li>Providing medication reminders and transportation to follow-up medical appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Observing, measuring and monitoring key indicators of declining condition.<\/li>\n<li>Early intervention to alert primary care physicians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Special Programs and Protocol for Common Avoidable Readmission Conditions<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Pneumonia<\/li>\n<li>Congestive Heart Failure<\/li>\n<li>Acute Myocardial Infraction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about how FirstLight Home Care can help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/helping-seniors\/reducing-hospital-readmissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce hospital readmission rates<\/a> on contacting us directly at 360-489-1621.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare reform initiatives have mandated\u00a0reducing preventable hospital readmissions,\u00a0and the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) is now implementing\u00a0reimbursement penalties\u00a0to hospitals with relatively higher rates of\u00a0Medicare readmissions. Under the\u00a0Hospital\u00a0Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), hospitals with readmission rates that exceed the national average are penalized by a\u00a0reduction in payments across all of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-home-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-olympia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}