1. New Strategies to Reduce HF Readmissions

2. Goals

3. Hospitalizations and Healthcare Costs: Need for Reduction in Hospitalizations of Patients With HF

4. Medicare 30-Day Readmission Penalty

5. Proportions of Readmissions for Causes Other Than the Condition at Initial Discharge

6. Hospitalization = Disease Changes

7. Hospitals Have Financial Incentives

8. HF: The Natural Trajectory

9. Comorbidities and HF

10. A Large Number of Eligible Patients Are Untreated

11. Risk-Treatment Mismatch in HF

12. Lack of Symptoms ≠ Stability of the Disease

14. Prevent Repeat HF Hospitalizations: Predictor of Mortality

15. PARADIGM-HF

16. PARADIGM-HF: Outcomes

19. Additions to the Armamentarium

20. Multidisciplinary Team Approach

21. Summary and Take-Away Points

22. Abbreviations

23. Abbreviations (cont)