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Hospital Readmissions Higher For African Americans

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Back already? It appears that older African Americans have a 13% higher chance of being readmitted to the hospital after initial discharge than whites overall, and those facilities that primarily

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Hospitals Want Race, Ethnic Issues Factored Into Readmissions Program - Kaiser Health News

kaiserhealthnews.org — “The American Hospital Association noted in a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick that research shows facilities with disproportionately large numbers of minorities have higher readmission rates.View full resource at kaiserhealthnews.org

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