Across the country, patients, their families, nurses, care coordinators, and
other front-line health care providers are pioneering effective ways to reduce
hospital readmissions. They are developing tools and practices to ensure that
hospital staff, patients, and primary care providers are working together,
especially when a patient’s care is transitioning, like when they leave the
hospital for home or a nursing facility.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is sponsoring a video contest to
discover collaborative ways providers and patients are working to avoid
readmissions and improve patients’ care and their health outcomes. Have you—as
a patient, family member, caregiver, nurse, care coordinator, or other health
care provider—developed an innovative approach to improve the way patients and
their care teams communicate, especially when a patient is transitioning from
the hospital?
Applying for the contest is simple. Just send a short video showing and/or
telling what you are doing to improve transitions. Winners will then be
professionally filmed, and they and their video will be featured during RWJF’s Care About Your Care effort
early in 2013. Care About
Your Care is a national effort to spark conversation and galvanize
attention about what people can do to identify and receive better health care.
Click here to learn more.
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