Best Practices, Strategies & Tools to Avoid Skilled Nursing Facility Rehospitalizations

This session explores how skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) can reduce costly and disruptive hospital readmissions. With nearly one-quarter of SNF patients rehospitalized within 30 days, providers face clinical, operational, and financial consequences – especially under CMS’s Value-Based Purchasing program. Avoidable readmissions not only increase costs but also harm residents through transfer trauma and significantly higher mortality rates. This presentation will outline the impact of rehospitalization on quality outcomes and reimbursement, share effective strategies to keep patients in place, and demonstrate how live data analytics and EHR-driven insights can help teams proactively identify risk, prioritize patients, and intervene early without adding administrative burden.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the impact of hospital readmissions on post-acute care
• Recognize best practices and strategies for using data analytics to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions
• Describe how live post-acute analytics can identify quality improvement activities and be incorporated into daily clinical operations to reduce hospital readmissions

Speaker

• Lindsey Ford, RN, Network Program Manager, Real Time Medical Systems

This live educational session is part of the 2026 LifeSpan Network Annual Conference agenda.