On March 15, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services initiated a program to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents. The study found 45% of hospital admissions among skilled care nursing home residents could have been avoided….

The Office of the Inspector General in a report prepared in 2010 found that 13.5% of Medicare recipients experienced adverse events during a hospitalization. These adverse events resulted in extended stays in the hospital, lifesaving intervention and caused permanent injury…