A friend called yesterday and he is also an internist. Somehow our conversation drifted to the topic of congestive heart failure (CHF). He told me about a small, impoverished town in near the coast in the Carolinas that had very few heart failure admissions. He asked how they had accomplished that. The hospital administrator introduced him to a nurse who was working under a grant, but she was very dedicated. She had a list of all the heart failure patients in the hospital service area. That was her job. Making certain that every patient was on the best treatment for CHF. She called the patients. She spent time with them. She had a trusting, caring, long term relationship with them. That’s it! That was the secret sauce. Every poor community in our country could do that, but they don’t.
Reducing Readmissions in Congestive Heart Failure
Reducing Readmissions in Congestive Heart…
Reducing Readmissions in Congestive Heart Failure
A friend called yesterday and he is also an internist. Somehow our conversation drifted to the topic of congestive heart failure (CHF). He told me about a small, impoverished town in near the coast in the Carolinas that had very few heart failure admissions. He asked how they had accomplished that. The hospital administrator introduced him to a nurse who was working under a grant, but she was very dedicated. She had a list of all the heart failure patients in the hospital service area. That was her job. Making certain that every patient was on the best treatment for CHF. She called the patients. She spent time with them. She had a trusting, caring, long term relationship with them. That’s it! That was the secret sauce. Every poor community in our country could do that, but they don’t.