The Philadelphia Inquirer: "[M]ore than 200 area hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, and others met with national experts at the Union League in Center City to learn about strategies to reduce hospital readmissions in the five-county Philadelphia area. One approach is to use nurses to proactively treat the highest-risk patients - older people with multiple chronic illnesses - who cost the most money." The plan, Preventing Avoidable Episodes or PAVE, has the goal to eliminate 10 percent of readmissions over 18 months...
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