Guest entry: Taking a stand for patient safety with the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

A number of my students at Keuka College have been working on policy and advocacy projects that I wanted to share.  The students researched a topic of their interest, met with their legislators, and developed a broad action plan to increase awareness of their topics.  This information in the form of a narrative blog post is provided courtesy of a graduate student who is interested in promoting increased awareness of impacts of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.  Because the author only has fieldwork experience and the facility or patient could be possibly identified, with the student ' s permission I have conducted my standard ' ABC Therapeutics mash-up ' of details and narrative so that the intent of the experience could be expressed while maintaining confidentiality. In school occupational therapists learn all about diagnostic conditions.  They also learn about ways that people might have difficulties with their occupations.  Occupational therapists also learn how to assess and treat those people so that their conditions will not limit them in the future.Occupational therapists also learn that some conditions are acute, that some are chronic, and that some are progressive.  None of that really matters though because the best thing about occupational therapy is that knowledge about disability can be matched to the patient ’s need, no matter where they are in this process.That is how it is supposed to work.These skills that ...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - Category: Occupational Health Tags: health insurance injury prevention OT practice Source Type: blogs