Study: Nurse Retention, Reduced Rehospitalizations Linked

A new study published in Gerontology shows that skilled nursing facilities that retain their licensed nurses are  also more likely to have fewer rehospitalizations.

The study's authors looked at staffing reports for 680 Florida nursing homes. They discovered that SNFs that increased their retention of licensed nurses by 10 percent during the study period also saw a 0.2 percent reduction in rehospitalizations, which works out to being about two fewer hospitalizations per facility per year.

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