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Hospitals to see Medicare payments tied more to readmission rates
Scrolling through a slew of files stored on his desktop, James Messerschmidt looked for an updated list of home-care providers. As the social worker specifically assigned to the emergency department at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Messerschmidt’s goal is to give his clients the resources they need to stay healthy back home. The couple he was helping Friday afternoon landed back in the hospital after the husband found himself in excruciating pain. He wasn’t taking as much care of himself because he was his wife’s primary caregiver after a cardiac issue that brought her to the hospital not long before this visit, Messerschmidt said…Read More