Officials at Catholic Health Services announced that its Catholic Health Care Transitions Services, Inc. has been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Community–based Organization to provide care transition services aimed at reducing readmission rates to hospitals.
The Community-based Care Transitions Program, (CCTP) is targeted to high-risk Medicare beneficiaries to provide them with the added support after hospital discharge as they move to new care settings including skilled nursing facilities and their own homes. The program’s goals are to reduce hospital readmissions, test sustainable interventions for care transition services, maintain or improve quality of care, and document measureable savings to the Medicare program.
Interventions to reduce the rate of readmissions include the coordination of Medication Management, Transportation to Doctors appointments, nutritional support services and improving the transition of beneficiaries from the inpatient Hospital setting to other care settings based upon the patient’s needs.
