Average readmission rates by number of home health visits in first week

Effective Jun 29, 2017
Published Jul 3, 2017
Last Reviewed Jun 28, 2017
More than 36% of patients who have just one home health visit in the first seven days of care return to the hospital within 30 days, according to data from Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) of Santa Barbara, Calif. This stands in contrast to a rate of 15.5% and lower for those who have two or more visits in the first week of care. The data involve nearly 6.6 million episodes of care.
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