Older adults receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS) face huge challenges in navigating the fragmented health care system in the US. Multiple transitions among providers can have serious, negative consequences for this population. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established programs to attempt to address some of these hurdles, and while they show promise, a new study finds that there are … Read More
Reducing Revolving Door Hospital Readmissions
LTQA chair Mary Naylor and her colleagues Linda Aiken, Ellen Kurtzman, Danielle Olds and Karen Hirschman have authored a piece in the newest edition of Health Affairs called “The Importance of Transitional Care in Achieving Health Reform.” Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial … Read More
Health Affairs launches “The Care Span”
With the support of The SCAN Foundation, Health Affairs has launched a new feature, “The Care Span”, a section that focuses on long term services and supports (LTSS). Bruce Chernoff, a member of the LTQA Board is President of The SCAN Foundation. In its March issue, the lead author of one of two featured articles was Susan Reinhard, LTQA board … Read More