Care Transitions in an Academic Setting

While timely care transitions are an industry-wide challenge, the challenge is particularly acute for academic hospitals, driven in part by the unique tripartite academic mission of education, research, and the provision of clinical care. In a new article, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Aman Sabharwal, MD, and Brian Pisarsky, RN, discuss how academic hospitals can apply the characteristics of high-performing hospitals to improve their care transitions and patient length of stay.

This article was originally published in the September 2024 issue of The Governance Institute’s Academic Health Focus newsletter.