Readmission Prevention ― Solutions Across the Provider Continuum

Luke presents students, academics, researchers, and working healthcare professionals and policymakers with an investigation of readmission prevention tactics employed across a wide variety of healthcare contexts. The author has organized the fifteen chapters that make up the main body of his text in five parts devoted to defining readmissions and their impact on the healthcare delivery system, the three phases of preparation to prevent readmissions, transitional care programs and models, and a variety of other related subjects. Josh D. Luke is a former hospital CEO, health system vice president, and nursing home administrator, and the founder of the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)