Fredric Leary, MD

Fredric Leary, MD
Senior Medical Director
McKesson Health Solutions

Dr. Leary’s professional interests and practice designs focus on continuous quality improvement and patient safety. His experience as a Family Physician includes private practice, rural health clinic, employed urban physician, and a Family Medicine residency teaching position.

White Paper: Strategies to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Posted in Cost and Quality Improvement, Fredric Leary, MD, MHS White Papers on May 11th, 2012 by Michelle Malgesini – Be the first to comment

Helping patients stay out of the hospital once they’ve been discharged has been a longtime priority for many hospitals, health networks, and health plans. Now it has become a financial imperative too, thanks to provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. For the past six years, McKesson has researched and developed readmission reduction strategies as an integral part of care management strategy. Our approach focuses on the coordination of handoffs and aligns with the criteria endorsed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Project RED (Re-Engineered Discharge).

Read the white paper to learn more about developing a readmission reduction strategy.