An exploration of community partnerships, safety-net hospitals, and readmission rates.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare hospital-community partnerships among safety-net hospitals relative to non-safety-net hospitals, and explore whether hospital-community partnerships are associated with reductions in readmission rates.

Data sources

Data from four nationwide hospital-level datasets for 2015-2016, including American Hospital Association (AHA) annual survey, Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) data, CMS Hospital Compare, and County Health Rankings National (CHRN) data.

Study design

We first examined how safety-net hospitals partner with nine different community providers, and how the overall and individual partnership patterns differ from those in non-safety-net hospitals. We then explored their association with 30-day readmission rates by diagnosis

SUBMITTER: Cheon O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376002 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature