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If you go home from the hospital after being treated for congestive heart failure , there’s a good chance you’ll be back in a few weeks. Nationwide, about one in four Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure is readmitted within a month of being discharged. The feds started reporting the figures for individual hospitals online earlier this year — a move that Joseph Ross , a geriatrician at Mount Sinai in New York, hopes will push hospitals to drive the rate down. “We don’t know whether patients are going to pay attention,” Ross told the Health Blog.
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Will Transparency Keep Heart Failure Patients Healthy?
Posted November 10th, 2009 in Health by admin. Tags: a-nurse-and, figures, finance, Health, hospital, Medicare, paper-out-today, rates, senate-finance, sort-out-their, told-the-health, year
