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How a Team-based Care Program in Rural Virginia Helped to Reduce Patient Readmissions and Improve Health Outcomes New Community Guide in Action Story BuchananCares Program: A Team-based Care Pilot led by a Rural Community Hospital and Local Pharmacist.

 

A team of clinical health professionals from the Appalachian College of Pharmacy, Buchanan General Hospital, and the Virginia Department of Health, developed the program, BuchananCares, to reduce patient readmissions and improve health outcomes. Led by Randall Cole, PharmD, the team built the program using recommendations from the Community Preventive Services Task Force and CDC resources.*
As reported by Dr. Cole, the BuchananCares program helped “prevent 30-day readmissions for patients with COPD, diabetes, heart failure, and pneumonia.” The BuchananCares program has been established as usual care at Buchanan General Hospital, and patient education has been expanded beyond the five disease conditions in the program pilot to include all disease conditions.   Read the full Community Guide in Action Story.

 

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* The BuchananCares team used a Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) website as a resource while developing the program.

 

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