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Re-Admission Rate within 31 Days |
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.
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31 Day Re-Admission Rate
Percent of Re-Admissions in a 31 Day Period for Children's Hospitals
October 1, 2006-September 30, 2007
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Last Updated: April 3, 2008
*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.
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31 Day Re-Admission Rate Over Time
Percent of Re-Admissions in a 31 Day Period for Children's Hospitals
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Last Updated: April 3, 2008
*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 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:
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Improving the discharge process to ensure patients are being discharged at the appropriate time in their recovery
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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
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Ensuring timely follow-up of discharged patients once they are at home
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.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000
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