Transitional care begins prior to hospital discharge and terminates once an outpatient care team has seen the patient and assumed care responsibility. Most transitional care models are designed around ...

PHILADELPHIA (September 25, 2023) – Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care ...

Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges which ...

Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) were recently funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to use policy flight ...

SHERRY M. BUMPUS, PhD, FNP-BC, is Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University, Department of Nursing, Ypsilanti, MI. Barbara L. Brush, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN BARBARA ...

These results highlight the benefits of the BRIDGE program and support the hypothesis that the BRIDGE program provides a significant savings in avoided hospital readmissions when compared to usual ...

This article presents a descriptive review of a team-based care transformation model in a large primary care network, including core staffing, process improvement, and extended care teams. Allegheny ...

Transitional care — a set of actions put in place when a patient leaves a hospital or skilled nursing facility — is a vital part of the care journey and one that has increased in importance as more ...

As the nation focuses on how to cut the cost of so-called health care reform, maybe it’s time to pay attention to demonstrated methods for improving care while reducing costs that are not yet ...