title: Preventing Rehospitalization through effective home health nursing care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify strategies to improve patient outcomes and prevent rehospitalizations in home healthcare. PRIMARY PRACTICE SETTINGS(S): Primarily for home healthcare but can also be a tool for all other fields in nursing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Through team collaboration and the proper resources, patient outcomes can improve and be cost-effective for home healthcare agencies despite the changes implemented after the Medicare change in payment for services, the prospective payment system.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The main goal for home healthcare is to improve patient outcomes. Nurses experienced in case management can devise creative strategies to ensure patient outcomes are met in a cost-effective manner. With continuous changes in reimbursement and payment incentives, case managers in every level of care must know about, and be responsible for, fiscal initiatives.
authors.affiliation: VNA of El Paso, Inc, El Paso, Texas 79902, USA. smvas@sbcglobal.net
authors.forename: Monica S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Vasquez
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019090:Case Management; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team