Reducing Hospitalization for Long Stay Patients - Case Reports in Clinical Medicine

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Case Reports in Clinical Medicine

Volume 6, Issue 8 (August 2017)

ISSN Print: 2325-7075 ISSN Online: 2325-7083

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Reducing Hospitalization for Long Stay Patients ()

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DOI: 10.4236/crcm.2017.68023 1,145 Downloads 3,548 Views Citations

Author(s)

Mary Luziani¹, Ronald Lagoe^2*, Shelly Littau²

Affiliation(s)

¹St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, Syracuse, NY, USA.
²Hospital Executive Council, Syracuse, NY, USA.

ABSTRACT

This case study described the structure and preliminary impact of a hospital program to improve efficiency by reducing long stays for adult medicine inpatients. The program focused resources on these patients, including an experienced case management staff, effective relationships with long term care providers, and Subacute and Complex Care services. The program caused the total number of adult medicine patient days associated with these patients to decline by 1593, or 4780 on an annual basis.

KEYWORDS

Hospitals, Hospital Lengths of Stay, Long Term Care

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Luziani, M. , Lagoe, R. and Littau, S. (2017) Reducing Hospitalization for Long Stay Patients. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 6, 221-226. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2017.68023.

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