A Community-Wide Effort to Reduce Hospital Utilization By Patients Requiring Nursing Home Placement

Described is an effort by health care providers to reduce hospital utilization by increasing admissions to skilled nursing facilities from hospitals. For a 6-month period, there were increased admissions from hospitals to nursing homes and a reduced number of hospital nonacute patients who required...

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Published in:The Gerontologist 1989-02, Vol.29 (1), p.67-73
Main Author: Lagoe, R J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Health care
Hospitals
Hospitals - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Long-Term care
Medicaid
New York
Nursing homes
Older people
Patient Admission - statistics & numerical data
Pilot Projects
Skilled Nursing Facilities - statistics & numerical data
Social research
Transfer Agreement
United States
Utilization Review
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Summary:Described is an effort by health care providers to reduce hospital utilization by increasing admissions to skilled nursing facilities from hospitals. For a 6-month period, there were increased admissions from hospitals to nursing homes and a reduced number of hospital nonacute patients who required long-term care placement. Eventually, however, the nursing homes shifted their admission patterns to accept more persons from non-hospital settings. As a result, admissions from hospitals declined and the number of nonacute patients in hospitals increased.
ISSN:0016-9013
1758-5341
DOI:10.1093/geront/29.1.67