Transitions of Care and the CMS Hospital Measure

Overview

Experts discuss how to successfully ensure safe discharge and tools that can help avoid admission and readmission of complex older patients from skilled nursing facilities.

Goals

1. To consider strategies for improving ED and long-term care transfers.
2. To address improved long-term residential care connections as a function of Geriatric ED care.
3. To describe models for communication between long-term residential care and EDs.