The Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio's Care Transitions program will add four more hospitals by July 1, according to a Journal-News report.
The program was established in 2012 and aims at reducing hospital readmissions. The program provides health coaches to participating hospitals to make home visits and follow-up phone calls over a 30-day period to recently discharged Medicare patients.
The hospitals joining the program are UC Health's West Chester (Ohio) Hospital as well as Mercy Health's Anderson Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio; Clermont Hospital in Batavia, Ohio; and West Hospital, also in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The program has the goal of reducing 30-day readmission rates by 20 percent, according to the report.
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