NRC Picker Client Grove City Medical Center Featured in Wall Street Journal
Grove City Medical Center in westerns Pennsylvania is featured in a June 7th Wall Street Journal article. The story covered a vairety of best practices for reducing readmissions–including 4.4 million potentially preventable hospital stays nationally. This number adds more than $30 billion a year to the nation's healthcare tab.
"Grove City Hospital in western Pennsylvania sends patients home with a printout of instructions and information from their electronic medical record. It also assigns transition coaches to call patients two to three days later to discuss medications and appointments and link them with outpatient and community programs, says Brad VanSickles, vice president of operations. In its "Home with Meds" program, discharged patients leave with a month's worth of medications arranged by morning, noon and bedtime; a local pharmacist visits the hospital to counsel patients on medications and makes house calls if concerns arise with home-bound patients."
