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Currently on the best-selling list published by the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Dr. Josh Luke’s book entitled Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across The Provider Continuum, will be known as a ground-breaking collaborative of national thought leaders in the field of readmissions. This book serves not only as a tool kit for the C-suite and clinicians, but a “Readmissions Bible” for those actively in the medical trenches devoting their lives to constant quality improvement in this field.
Dr Luke accomplished his goal of “providing a user-friendly guide for healthcare operations to implement tactics to prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions.” The book creatively unfolds the history, current state and possible future of medical and technological strategies, services and products that will not only change the face of how we see patients but how medicine needs to be moving towards a patient-centered philosophy.
The book is currently being offered in bulk discount (ten or more) for Holiday employee gift orders at a rate of $49, marked done for $79 by emailing Info@NationalReadmissionPrevention.com. It makes a perfect holiday gift for acute executives, as well as SNF, assisted living, home health, home care, pharmacist, physicians and hospice leaders alike.
What makes this book cover the complete perspectives of acute and post-acute care is the devotion of a chapter for each stakeholder in the patient’s landscape. Chapters are written with the exclusive purpose of addressing prevention planning in every phase of the Continuum of Care. It begins with Prevention Planning before discharge, continues with after discharge perspectives and what to consider if the patient returns to the Emergency Department.
There are chapters devoted for Prevention Planning for Acute Care Hospitals, Post-Acute providers such as: Skilled Nursing Homes, Long Term Acute Care Hospitals, Home Health Agencies, Hospice and Palliative Care, Assisted Living and Home Care and Private Duty services. No one has covered the complete spectrum of care addressing readmission reduction as thorough as Josh Luke has in this book.
Dr. Luke is a veteran hospital CEO, nursing home administrator and is a leading national health care “Futurist” and he proved it with discussions on advantages and the need to narrow the hospital network and provides suggestions to post-acute providers on how they can supplement their services to enhance their value-proposition to hospital and ACO networks. He currently teaches at the University of Southern California and the book is the anchor of USC’s post acute care curriculum.
What makes this book a “must read” is the collaboration of some of the top minds in Readmissions. There are guest articles and case studies from professionals beginning with the foreword written by Dr Eric A. Coleman and contributors such as Dr. James Kennedy, Adrienne Mihelic, PhD, and David Wolfe, PhD, just to name a few.
In summary, Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across The Provider Continuum by Josh D. Luke is a collaboration of Readmissions Planning and perspectives from the forward thinking, thought leaders in the industry. Josh’s analysis of the Readmission problem paints a clear view that by working together with medical professionals, technology and most importantly, with our patients and their families, we can reduce the hardship of hospital readmissions on our fragile seniors and our fragile Medicare system.
