Toolkits

2012

Simply Put: A guide for creating easy-to-understand materials—This guide helps you transform complicated scientific and technical information into communication materials your audiences can relate to and understand. This guide will be useful for creating fact sheets, FAQs, brochures, and other materials.

AHRQ Health Literacy Univerasl Precautions Toolkit—This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance and tools for assessing your practice and making changes so you can connect with patients of all literacy levels.

CDC's Guide to Social Media—This guide contains information to help you write more effectively using multiple social media channels.

Internal Promotion Presentation—This customizable PowerPoint presentation explains the No Place Like Home Campaign, why it is needed, the community support behind it, your hospital's requirements to participate, and the support your staff and community will receive to achieve your readmissions reduction goals.

How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Post-Acute Care Settings to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
This guide is designed to support hospital-based teams and their community partners in codesigning and reliably implementing improved care processes to ensure that patients who have been discharged from the hospital have an ideal transition to the next setting of care.

How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facilities to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
This guide focuses on the transfer of residents from the hospital to the skilled nursing facility (SNF) setting and the associated transfer of responsibility from the hospital to the SNF care team. (SNF is an umbrella term that includes nursing homes, long-term care facilities, acute rehabilitation facilities, and post-acute care facilities.

How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Home Health Care to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
This guide is designed to support hospital-based teams and their community partners in creating an ideal reception into home health care in the first 48 hours after the patient is discharged from the hospital, a post-acute care setting, or a rehabilitation facility.

How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to the Clinical Office Practice to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
This guide focuses on the reception of patients back into the office practice after hospitalization. Optimal post-discharge care is an important component of the overall care provided in primary care and in specialty practices. The approaches are intended to be a resource for clinicians and staff in office practices as they create new ways to provide optimal care for their patients.

Some material on this Web site is adapted from material originally prepared by the RARE Campaign.