Groups try simple steps to avoid hospital rebound

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 12/08/2009 - 02:16

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Talk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month - even worse, one in four patients with heart failure....


 

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