How-to Guide: Creating an Ideal Transition Home

This guide was created to support participating organizations in their work over the course of the STAAR initiative and beyond to improve transitions in care.

STAAR Project Summary

A one-page summary of the STAAR initiative.

STAAR: A State-Based Strategy to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations

This document reflects the work of IHI to date to develop a state-wide strategy for reducing avoidable rehospitalizations.

As part of the Effective Interventions to Reduce Rehospitalizations project, which preceded the STAAR initiative, IHI produced materials to highlight promising approaches to reduce avoidable rehospitalizations.

• A Survey of the Published Evidence

This document is a survey of the published literature regarding the effective interventions to reduce avoidable rehospitalizations.

• A Compendium of Promising Interventions

This companion document to the Published Evidence provides information regarding current best programs and practices to reduce rehospitalizations.

The checklist provided in this tool focuses on aspects of the health care system that policy makers can influence and for which data is available to assess their state’s performance regarding hospital readmission rates.