The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has issued a new report on hospital readmissions.
Health care reform efforts at both the state and federal levels have targeted avoidable hospital readmissions as major causes of rising health care costs.   In issuing the report, PHC4 notes that not all readmissions are preventable.
Preventing readmissions is a particular challenge for Pennsylvania safety-net hospitals because of the difficulties many low-income patients have complying with their post-discharge medical instructions.
Read more about the report and download Hospital Readmissions in Pennsylvania 2010 here, on the PHC4 web site.