Skilled Nursing News: “Data-Driven Partnership Targets Hospital Admissions from Nursing Homes”

A new partnership aims to give skilled nursing facilities a leg up in preventing readmissions by facilitating the transmission of patient data in as close to real time as possible.

If successful, it could boost resident quality of life — and help SNFs win back some of the 2% of Medicare reimbursements that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will start withholding on Oct. 1.

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