Panel: Hospital to home: Tomorrow’s transitional care models (Health Journalism 2011)
Speaker: Emily Saltz, executive director, Elder Resources
Panel description: Among other things, the Affordable Care Act mandates hospital hand-offs – “transitions” in policy speak – that reduce readmissions, make better use of community-based health care resources and lower health care costs. This session explains the key players in transitional care, the services they are expected to provide, the challenges they face because of the high degree of integration all transitional care models require, and the huge role family caregivers are expected to play.
