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COPD rehospitalizations within thirty days post discharge in the United States is 21.6% with costs ranging up to fifty million dollars annually. In 2007, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) identified seven conditions and procedures that accounted for almost 30 percent of potentially preventable readmissions including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the first quarter of 2012, Bassett hospital had a readmission rate up to 23.5% so we designed a multidisciplinary intervention program to decrease the number of readmissions in...