Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., announced the receipt of a $690,926 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to create a transitional care program to reduce preventable readmissions at its Highland Hospital in Oakland.
The program will use an evidence-based model called Project RED to attempt to reduce Highland's 30-day all-cause preventable readmission rate for high-risk patients by at least 30 percent, according to the release. The initiative will also aim to reduce the 90-day all-cause preventable readmission rate by at least 15 percent from the 2010 rate.
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The program will use an evidence-based model called Project RED to attempt to reduce Highland's 30-day all-cause preventable readmission rate for high-risk patients by at least 30 percent, according to the release. The initiative will also aim to reduce the 90-day all-cause preventable readmission rate by at least 15 percent from the 2010 rate.
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