Nurse-led model improves health equity

THRIVE ─ a nurse-led care model providing intensive case management, care coordination, continuity of care and communication across acute and community settings for Medicaid patients ─ has been shown to improve health equity, according to early study results. Program participants received a visit from a home care nurse within two days of hospital discharge, as well as clinical support from their discharging physicians and social workers. Patients received other clinical care services as needed, including occupational therapy, physical therapy and community health worker services. Early results, set for publication in BMJ Open Quality, showed participants had fewer emergency department visits and hospital re-admissions at one month than those not enrolled in the program. (Newswise release, 8/17/22)