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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

Like many health care systems, OSF HealthCare—now with 17 hospitals throughout Illinois and Michigan—has found that bouncebacks from SNFs are the single biggest slice of that system’s preventable readmissions. That’s when the health system turned to a company that provides a turnkey SNF-care program.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: And Susan?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”