TITLE:
Reducing Hospitalization for Long Stay Patients
AUTHORS:
Mary Luziani, Ronald Lagoe, Shelly Littau
KEYWORDS:
Hospitals, Hospital Lengths of Stay, Long Term Care
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.6 No.8,
August
9,
2017
ABSTRACT: This case study described the structure and preliminary impact of a hospital program to improve efficiency by reducing long stays for adult medicine inpatients. The program focused resources on these patients, including an experienced case management staff, effective relationships with long term care providers, and Subacute and Complex Care services. The program caused the total number of adult medicine patient days associated with these patients to decline by 1593, or 4780 on an annual basis.