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New Metric for Hospital Quality: How Many Older Adults Go to a Post-Acute Care Facility After Surgery
Discharging a patient to a skilled nursing facility or other type of post-acute care facility after surgery can add more than $5,000 to care costs and is associated with worse outcomes for older adult patients. According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), discharge to a post-acute care setting may be a valuable benchmark to help hospitals evaluate how they are serving older adult surgical patients.
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