Don Ebner with his daughter Donna at their home in Hillsborough. Donna connects a CardioNet monitor to her father. Since his double heart bypass surgery in late June, Don has been using the monitor to ...

A telephonic transitional care program at a rural hospital reduced postdischarge Medicare spending by 31% and reduced inpatient spending for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. Objectives: To ...

CHICAGO-Programs designed to help transition care for hospitalized older patients to outside healthcare clinicians and settings are associated with reduced rates of hospital readmissions, according to ...

Based on his personal experiences in the hospital setting, Patrick White reviews the factors that organizations should consider when measuring the success of their transitional care programs. Mr White ...

When it comes to safely transitioning patients from one setting to another, not all interventions are created equal, according to a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. For heart ...

We’ve known for years that good transitional care programs—services aimed at helping patients make the move from a hospital or skilled nursing facility (SNF) back home, or even from a hospital to a ...