Tampa, FL (PRWEB) October 22, 2012
Care2Learn, Inc., the leader in online continuing education, compliance training and record-keeping solutions for the senior care industry, announced the completion of its comprehensive series of courses for reducing rehospitalization today. The set of 14 courses represents the industrys first complete library of online training courses to follow the diagnoses for each care path outlined by the INTERACT II tool. Care2Learn is debuting the series of courses at the 2012 LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Denver, October 21-24.
INTERACT II (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) are the interventions that improve the identification, evaluation and communication about changes in resident status. INTERACT II was first designed in a project supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and is currently supported by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund. The Care2Learn modules address the health issues most associated with triggering rehospitalizations including congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, urinary tract infections, COPD, Sepsis and delirium. Additional modules provide an overview of rehospitalization, review transition approaches, discuss evidence-based strategies for reducing rehospitalization and evaluate the use of advance directives in preventing rehospitalization.
The Affordable Care Acts requirements for reducing rehospitalization is currently putting the onus on the hospital/acute care facility, but the post-acute care industry should expect they will eventually shoulder some of the responsibility, noted Tamar Abell, President, Care2Learn. Post-acute care providers should be motivated to focus on preventable, proactive efforts to shore up their role in reducing rehospitalizations. Consistent, accessible online training supports that effort.
Care2Learns courses support the ability for both sides the acute and post-acute providers — to understand their role and how they can improve not only the identification and evaluation of these diagnoses, but ultimately the care to reduce the rehospitalization. Each course is approximately 30-35 minutes long with the content geared toward nurses, LPNs and RNs. Each course incorporates a pre- and post-test and uses interactive exercises and real-life scenarios to demonstrate care practices. Care2Learns complete course list for reducing rehospitalization includes:
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