The Delta Study to Reduce Hospitalizations

Sponsored by Delta Health Technologies. Co-sponsored by National Association for Home Care & Hospice.  Affiliated sponsors are the Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign, NAHC Forum of State Associations, Community Health Accreditation Program, The Joint Commission, American Physical Therapy Association, and Fazzi Associates, Inc.

The National Study on Best Practices to Reduce Unplanned Hospitalizations has two goals: First, to identify the best practices that are used by hospital-based and non hospital-based home care agencies to reduce unplanned hospitalizations.  Second, based on the findings, initiate a systematic effort that results in home care agencies not only learning about the best practice findings, but also adopting the findings.  The study results will be shared with the entire field later this year. 

We believe that this national study to identify best practices used by home care’s most successful agencies to reduce avoidable hospitalizations may be the single most important national study in the history of home care.  It is addressing an issue that has been named as a major goal of all five of the most significant initiatives in health care reform – Care Transitions, ACOs, Medical Homes, Bundling, and Value Based Purchasing.

National Steering Committee