RMU Health Care Panel to Tackle Rising Hospital Readmission Rates

School of Nursing and Health Sciences on March 27 will conduct a panel discussion on ways to combat increasingly high re-admission rates at hospitals. 

Hospital re-admissions—when a patient must return to a hospital within 30 days of being discharged— when preventable cost the country about $17 billion annually in Medicare costs, according to the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative. 

Panelists will discuss ways in which the health care community can lower preventable readmission rates, particularly those among senior citizens. The event will begin at 6 p.m. in the university's Sewall Center dining rooms A and C. 

RMU assistant professor Joseph Angelelli, who is the director of the university's Health Services Administration program, will moderate the event. 

Panelists include: