Heart failure readmission reductions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ At Penn Medicine Princeton Health in Plainsboro, N.J., Brielle Hamilton is a nurse manager on the telemetry unit; Charul Yadav is the heart failure coordinator; Deanna Gomez is a clinical nurse on the telemetry unit; Karyn A. Book is the assistant vice president and associate CNO; Lisa Motavalli is a physician; Craig Gronczewski is the senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer; Sheila Kempf is the vice president and CNO, and Kari A. Mastro is the director of practice, innovation, and research. Nicholas Giordano is an assistant professor at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.

Brielle Hamilton et al. Nurs Manage. 2022.

. 2022 Apr 1;53(4):26-33.

doi: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000824048.91690.74.

¹ At Penn Medicine Princeton Health in Plainsboro, N.J., Brielle Hamilton is a nurse manager on the telemetry unit; Charul Yadav is the heart failure coordinator; Deanna Gomez is a clinical nurse on the telemetry unit; Karyn A. Book is the assistant vice president and associate CNO; Lisa Motavalli is a physician; Craig Gronczewski is the senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer; Sheila Kempf is the vice president and CNO, and Kari A. Mastro is the director of practice, innovation, and research. Nicholas Giordano is an assistant professor at Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.

Abstract

Behaviors, treatments, and self-management strategies used by patients and caregivers at home.

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