Re-Admission Rate within 31 Days
A low score is better than a high score. A lower score means that patients are not being discharged too early. As a result, they are not having to return to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital with the same diagnosis within 31 days.
31 Day Re-Admission Rate |
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Benchmark data are from the Pediatric Health Information System database collected by the Child Health Corporation of America.
What This Graph Says
Packard Children’s Hospital’s re-admission rate compares favorably to other hospitals.
Our 31 day re-admission rate is shown in red in the figure above. Packard Children’s Hospital’s rate of 2.6 percent is in the top half amongst 43 other children's hospitals.
31 Day Re-Admission Rate Over Time |
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Benchmark data are from the Pediatric Health Information System database collected by the Child Health Corporation of America.
What This Graph Says
The graph above shows Lucile Packard Children's Hospital’s 31-day re-admission rate (red line) from 2008-2010 in three-month increments. On average, we have consistently performed better than the benchmark 12-month mean (blue line) and are improving over time.
What We Are Doing to Improve the Re-Admission Rate within 31 Days
Our goal is to minimize the number of avoidable re-admissions. We seek to continually improve our re-admission rate. We are focusing specifically on:- Improving the discharge process to ensure patients are being discharged at the appropriate time in their recovery
- Increasing patient and family education prior to discharge to ensure that patients and families are prepared to care for themselves or their child at home
- Ensuring timely follow-up of discharged patients once they are at home