
| Date: | OCTOBER 7, 2004 | ||
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| Manager: | Nora Super | ||
| Summary: | This meeting explored the difficulties inherent in moving patients between health care settings (for example, from their home to a hospital, to a skilled nursing facility, and back home again). It also considered potential solutions for improving the quality of transitional care. | ||
| Speakers: | Robert Berenson, MD, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute; Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Carol Raphael, President and Chief Executive Officer, Visiting Nurse Service of New York Slides from the presentations by Dr. Berenson and Dr. Coleman are available for download. |