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Nutritious food is essential to the healing process after a hospital stay––not only for promoting continued recovery and independence, but for avoiding readmission.
We are pleased to share the results of our 2020 Case Manager satisfaction survey.
Unplanned hospital readmissions in the U.S. cost between $15 and $20 billion annually. Common causes for readmission include premature discharge, infections, complexities from having multiple chronic conditions, and taking high-risk medications. But there are several harder to identify social risk factors including financial security, access to food, housing and employment, commonly known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), that drive up hospital readmissions.
Home-delivered meals are popular with senior citizens and patients recuperating from hospital stays as having a meal brought into the home is convenient and saves time.
Home-delivered meals are proven effective at helping senior citizens, the chronically ill, and recently discharged patients stay healthier.
More and more, hospitals and health systems are beginning to address root causes of disease in their communities. In 2002, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) began penalizing hospitals with high readmission rates. In fact, hospitals face a three percent cut in Medicare payment for having higher readmission rates for certain measures. Failing to lower patient readmission rates not only leads to strong financial penalties, but also to fewer or potentially lost referrals, and higher costs to deliver car
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