Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges which ...

PHILADELPHIA (September 25, 2023) – Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care ...

The mean age of patients in this study (n=80) was 62.5 years; the majority was White (86.3%) and female (58.7%). Overall, 77% (n=62) of referred patients attended their scheduled BRIDGE program ...

Industry experts call care transitions the most underengineered part of medicine and urge health systems to restructure their ...

Under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a variety of transitional care programs and services have been established to improve quality and reduce costs. These programs help hospitalized patients with ...

Transitional care models in stroke rehabilitation encompass structured approaches to support patients as they move from acute hospital settings to home and community environments. These models seek to ...

Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) were recently funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to use policy flight ...

Transitional care encompasses the deliberate, coordinated process by which young people with long‐term health conditions move from child‐centred to adult‐oriented services. This period coincides with ...

These results highlight the benefits of the BRIDGE program and support the hypothesis that the BRIDGE program provides a significant savings in avoided hospital readmissions when compared to usual ...