The re-admission rate is quality data that shows the percentage of patients who are re-admitted with the same diagnosis within 31 days of being discharged from the hospital. Re-admission rate is tracked to ensure that patients are not being discharged too early. 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.
*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 blue in the figure above. Packard Children’s Hospital’s rate of 2.3 percent is in the top third of 42 other children's hospitals. The average 31 day re-admission rate for children's hospitals in this period is 2.7 percent, shown as an orange bar above.
*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 (blue line) from 2004–2007 in three-month increments. On average, we have consistently performed better than the benchmark 12-month mean (orange line). What We Are Doing to Improve the Re-Admission Rate within 31 DaysOur goal is to minimize the number of avoidable re-admissions. We seek to continually improve our re-admission rate. We are focusing specifically on:
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
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