Tag: Readmission rates

I feel like we've heard a lot of HME providers talking about the important role that they play in helping to reduce hospital readmission rates, and I feel like we've seen some providers walking the talk, too. Take Alana HealthCare. In the HME Newswire a couple of weeks ago, Managing Editor Theresa Flaherty wrote about how this provider has reduced readmission rates for stage IV COPD patients with respiratory failure between 40% and 73%. That's pretty impressive. We've also written about efforts by...