Improvements in Transitional Care Among Medicaid-Insured Patients With Serious Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Thrive program is an evidenced-based care model for Medicaid-insured adults in the hospital-to-home transition. A substantial portion of Thrive participants live with serious mental illness (SMI), yet Thrive's efficacy has not been tested among these patients.

Purpose

To compare 30-day postdischarge outcomes between Thrive participants with and without SMI and explore Thrive's appropriateness and acceptability among participants with SMI.

Methods

We conducted a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study of 252 (62 with SMI) Thrive participants discharged from an academic medical center from February 2021 to August 2023. Interviews of participants with SMI were analyzed using rapid qualitative analysis.

Results

Participants with and without SMI ex

SUBMITTER: Nikpour J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11888568 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Mar 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature