PATH ALONG Source Of Community Education

An important aspect of the service PATH ALONG provides is the education throughout the community.  PATH ALONG delivers information on the changing health care delivery system to improve the awareness in the community.  Knowing how and when changes are occurring can help reduce the surprise when need for medical help arises.

The three commonly recognized changes occurring now include:

1. An increased severity of illness is required to be admitted to the hospital.

2. Hospital departments have evolved the delivery of their service to help reduce the time a patient would stay in the hospital. 

3. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have enacted policy that reduces hospital reimbursement for a patient who is readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

The hospital staff need to record assessed values that fall within a defined range to demonstrate evidence of the need for a hospital stay.  The patient may be ill but the symptoms do not indicate a severity that would require a hospital stay.  Ill people in need of the help of another are being sent away because the hospital does not have the staff to provide this service.   This service is delivered by a (www.homecarepath.com) supportive care agency.

Discharge from a hospital does not mean the patient has fully recovered.  Discharge simply means the patient is stable enough to no longer need a hospital level of care.  Hospitals have stream lined the service varied departments provide to shorten the time a patient stays in the hospital.   Patients are being moved along while they still need the help of another.  This is a service delivered by a (www.homecarepath.com) supportive care agency.

Wisconsin's rural community hospital budgets are much more dependent upon all their Medicare revenue.   Rural community hospitals tend to serve a larger portion of Medicare patients in the over all patient population.  Because the money being with held from the hospital with readmissions progresses annually the analysis translation is the potential loss of a hospital location.  Hospital rates of readmissions have to be reduced.  PATH ALONG is an original Wisconsin model designed to reduce hospital readmission rates. 

For additional information check out this site with free access
http://www.homecarepath.com/Pages/PRESSRELEASEOriginalWisconsinModelToReduceHospitalReadmissionRates.aspx