The Care Aligned Program (CAP): Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations Without Focusing on Hospitalizations

Reducing avoidable hospitalizations is a common concern for nursing home residents as debility, functional decline, morbidity and mortality are inevitable complications of hospitalization. Therefore, nursing homes and hospitals across the country are focusing on reducing avoidable readmissions and hospitalizations. Most programs put the emphasis on the last day or few hours before the resident was hospitalized. Instead, we developed the Care Aligned Program (CAP) as an interdisciplinary, collaborative, patient-centric, bedside and educational approach to reducing hospitalizations and re-admissions by focusing on increasing the awareness of patients at risk, mitigating those risks, and clarifying goals.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Quality Improvement Source Type: research