title: Hospital's case management program pays off with dramatic drop in utilization.
abstract: The administrators at this Ohio hospital are trying to keep people out of their facility, and they are not ashamed to say so. In fact, in a communitywide effort acclaimed by the American Hospital Association, the facility found a way to decrease its soaring readmission rates, and the community could not be happier.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003211:Concurrent Review; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000639:trends; D008485:Medical Audit; D009820:Ohio; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000639:trends*