Interesting initiative for improving quality and reducing readmissions from skilled nursing facilities

Necessity is the mother of invention: an innovative hospitalist-resident initiative for improving quality and reducing readmissions from skilled nursing facilities – Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives (free) (RT @HMVJC see Tweet)

In this model of care, a hospitalist-led team, including the resident on the geriatrics rotation, followed patients discharged from the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, leading to significant decrease in readmission rates.