After Hospitalization: A Dartmouth Atlas Report On Post-Acute Care For Medicare Beneficiaries

On September 2011, the Dartmouth Institute published a report entitled, After Hospitalization: A Dartmouth Atlas Report on Post-Acute Care for Medicare Beneficiaries. The report includes information on the need nationally to reduce costly hospital readmissions for the elderly on Medicare who are treated for acute or chronic conditions. These findings were reported for the nation’s 306 hospital referral regions and for 94 academic medical centers. According to the authors, without high-quality care coordination, patients are discharged to their homes, they go back to the emergency rooms and then back to the hospital. Medicare patients over 65 are . . .