Care Transitions
Care Transitions Initiative Overview
The Care Transitions Theme focuses on improving coordination across the continuum of care. In particular, QIOs will promote seamless transitions from the hospital to home, skilled nursing care, or home health care.
QIOs will work to reduce unnecessary readmissions to hospitals that may increase risk or harm to patients and cost to Medicare. CMS will look to QIOs to implement projects that effect process improvements to address issues in medication management, post-discharge follow-up, and plans of care for patients who move across health care settings.
News
- Remington Report May/June 2010 Edition: Improving Outcomes Through Re-Engineered Care Transitions: The New York Experience
- 05/20/2010 - Seventeen New York Healthcare Providers to Receive IPRO Quality Awards
- 04/09/2009 - IPRO Honors Upper Capital Region Health Care Providers