Resources

Agenda and registration form for the March 14, 2012 Partnership for Patient Care Leadership Summit.

December 2011 PAVE Project press release announcing the project's results.

Participating hospitals reported monthly readmission data to monitor same-hospital readmission rates in the region. Baseline measurements were taken at the start of the project to determine a regional readmission rate. Eighteen hospitals submitted enough data to be included in the analysis. The results of the analysis can been seen in this graph.

The Hospital Care Transitions Passport is a document with contact information for key departments involved in care transitions at the hospitals, as well as a description of the hospital’s care transitions process, in order to improve communication between hospitals and other providers across the continuum of care.

The Hospital Discharge Passport is a set of standards that incorporates all of the critical components of an effective care transition at the time of hospital discharge.

List of organizations (47) that participated in the PAVE Project ("Preventing AVoidable Episodes: Smoothing the Way for Better Transitions”),which included hospitals and health systems, non-acute providers, and community organizations.

HCIF announces the members of the Board of Directors and Officers that were recently elected effective January 1, 2012.

The PAVE Project Medication Passport provides a set of standards that incorporates all of the critical components of an effective, clear and concise medication reconciliation and transfer form.

The PAVE Project Payor Passport is a document with payor contact information to be used by hospital utilization management, emergency department and discharge planning staff as a way to improve communication between hospitals and insurers.

The attached report summarizes the results for the 22 hospitals/systems that completed the Transitions of Care Survey both at the start of the PAVE Project to establish baseline measures, and again at project end, to assess the qualitative improvements in the region as a whole.