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Improving Harm Across the Board. QUALITY… Ensuring that we do EVERYTHING we SHOULD do PATIENT SAFETY… Ensuring that we do NOTHING we SHOULD NOT do. South County Hospital Healthcare Systems Elaine Desmarais, AVP Quality & Regulatory Compliance.
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Improving Harm Across the Board QUALITY… Ensuring that we do EVERYTHING we SHOULD do PATIENT SAFETY… Ensuring that we do NOTHING we SHOULD NOT do South County Hospital Healthcare Systems Elaine Desmarais, AVP Quality & Regulatory Compliance
Reduce Number of Patient All Harm “Across the Board” to 0CY 2012 Excludes readmissions
Breakthrough Strategies for reducing avoidable readmissions “What do you think caused you to come back to the hospital?” Case Manager • Transitions of Care • Patient Centered Medical Home • Pharmacy consults during hospitalization • Outpatient medication management program • Focused patient interviews at readmission