ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Stephen Jencks, MD, and hospitalist Brad Sherman, MD, FHM, chat about readmission problems and solutions
From: The Hospitalist, February 2011
With Medicare preparing to curtail reimbursement for 30-day readmissions, hospitalists are on the frontlines of safe and effective transitions of care
by Bryn Nelson, PhD
Listen to Stephen Jencks, MD, MPH, discuss why the issue of hospital readmissions has caught the attention of doctors and professional societies.
Listen to veteran hospitalist Bradley Sherman, MD, FHM, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Glen Cove Hospital, part of the North Shore/LIJ Health System in New York, talk about what you can do both now and over the next year to help your institutions decrease readmission rates.
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