Welcome to the No Place Like Home Campaign!
The No Place Like Home Campaign seeks to engage hospitals, rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities, hospices, home health agencies, community pharmacies, clinician offices, community-based organizations, and other care providers in a robust, intense 18-month collaborative effort to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions that occur within 30 days of hospital discharge.
Goals
- Prevent 4,000 readmissions within 30 days of hospital discharge by June 30, 2013.
- Reduce the overall readmission rate for Medicare beneficiaries by 20 percent (based on claims data from Medicare 2010).
- Decrease healthcare expenditures related to readmissions.
What's New
March 23, 2012
CMS Awards More Care Transitions Grants
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently added 23 sites to its Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP), which aims to prevent high-risk Medicare beneficiaries from being readmitted to the hospital. The two-year agreements involve community-based organizations working with other providers to transition patients from the hospital to their homes, nursing homes or other healthcare facilities.
March 16, 2012
Arizona Department of Health Services Director's Blog—AZ Kicks off the "No Place Like Home" Campaign
Kathy McCanna, Alan Oppenheim, and Connie Belden (from Licensing); and Kristy Benton (from Behavioral Health) recently jumped head-first into a new Arizona healthcare initiative called No Place Like Home, which is Arizona's approach to the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs project. The project aims to prevent hospital-acquired conditions and hospital readmissions. The name No Place Like Home means that it's better to be at home than back in a hospital. Click here to read the entire blog.
