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Rehab facility improved its discharges home rate: rates at New Jersey facility increased 7%.(Special edition: focusing on performance)

Publication: Rehab Continuum Report

Publication Date: 01-NOV-04
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It's always a challenge for a rehab facility to make certain discharges to home remain high, despite the many challenges that patients will face.

When administrators at one New Jersey rehab facility noticed a drop in discharge disposition to home, they decided to implement their process improvement strategy to improve this trend, says Joan Alverzo, PhD, CRRN, chief clinical officer of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation of West Orange, NJ, a Mechanicsburg, PA-based Select Medical Co. organization.

"We dug deeper to see...

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