Post-Discharge Services. Reduce Readmissions and Improve Outcomes

Few patients fully understand their diagnosis and post-discharge instructions after a visit to the emergency department. To prevent avoidable situations where patients are readmitted, it’s crucial to implement proactive, early intervention.

Our post-discharge follow-up service helps hospitals and care centers manage patient care immediately following discharge, serving as an early intervention solution that can help reduce readmission and prevent CMS penalties.

Manage patient post-discharge follow-ups

Using personalized clinical outreach services and customized escalation protocols, we can help you reduce hospital readmissions, increase attendance at follow-up appointments, and improve HCAHPS scores and health outcomes.

Powerful Engagement Solutions for Providers

Customized Communication Plans

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Drive patient action and adherence by creating hospital discharge plans by department, floor, provider, or patient population type

Send automated messaging via email, text, and pre-recorded messages based on patient profile
Reduce the workload of your staff, freeing them for higher-value activities
Proactively schedule follow-up appointments and class and event attendance by sending patients real-time scheduling links and using self-service or live voice scheduling

Triggered & Continuous Communication Outreach

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Connect with patients or their caregivers within 24 to 48 hours of discharge and after a scheduled follow-up appointment.

Establish an understanding of the patient’s recovery within 24 to 48 hours of discharge
Gauge compliance and identify patients who need additional attention

Customized Post-Discharge Surveys

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Get the range of qualitative and quantitative feedback you need, including open-ended questions, and evaluate and track results with documentation to help improve HCAHPS scores.

Route calls to clinical or non-clinical teams based on patient responses to customized survey prompts matched to your facility’s objectives
Customize post-discharge survey questions to garner the range of qualitative and quantitative feedback you need to report
Pose open-ended questions to evaluate and track qualitative feedback

Escalation Protocols

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Provide real-time escalation by connecting patients to our clinical agents who can quickly access emergency medical services whenever a critical question or matter arises.

Registered Nurse Consultation

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Clarify post-discharge instructions, medication administration, and care plan questions with our clinical experts.

Fill in gaps or patient misunderstandings
Provide advice from our clinical agents and your healthcare staff, or a referral to an outpatient physician instead of choosing to return to the emergency department
Track a patient’s medications, including drug name, dosage, and frequency, and route to help your pharmacists evaluate patient medications for adverse effects

Secure Portal

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Capture trend information by category, measure care initiatives, share patient feedback, and escalate patient needs in real time from a secure online portal. Access real-time reporting and call data to evaluate service performance and identify areas of improvement.

Patient Discharge Use Cases

Patient Escalations

Assess whether an escalation is needed to avoid post-discharge complications

Trends Analysis

Track patient adherence and escalations to reduce readmissions

Patient Feedback

Improve HCAHPS scores by quickly responding to survey findings

40% reduction in readmission rates

In the first year of introducing Carenet Post-Discharge Services, a large Texas health system saw a 40% reduction in care center and hospital readmission rates when comparing patients who completed the post-discharge process compared to those who didn’t.