A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) shows that hospitals and their community allies made little progress from 2008 to 2010 at reducing hospital readmissions for elderly patients.The report showed that one in eight Medicare patients were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being released after surgery in 2010, while patients in the hospital for reasons other than surgery returned at an even higher rate of one in six. Both rates were virtually unchanged from 2008. New Medicare data from the Dartmouth Atlas Project shows that patients’ chances of being readmitted largely depend on where they live and the hospitals where they receive care.
Read full report: The Revolving Door: A Report on U.S. Hospital Readmissions