Charleston Area Medical Center - CAMC Improves Quality and Performance in COPD Readmissions and Patient Engagement
Charleston Area Medical Center - CAMC Improves Quality and Performance in COPD Readmissions and Patient Engagement
2 PagesCASE STUDY 4191 Fayetteville Rd. Raleigh, NC 27603 T 877 432 9076 info@telehealth.com www.telehealth.com The Challenge West Virginia ranks fourth in the nation for prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). 1 While COPD has been the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. since 1991, it has been the third leading cause of death in West Virginia since 2000. West Virginia’s rates of hospitalizations for COPD have consistently been higher than comparable U.S. rates -- in some years twice the national rate. 2 Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC), a non-profit four-hospital system in central West Virginia, sees the faces behind those numbers every day within their patient population. In the first quarter of 2015, CAMC’s Multidisciplinary Patient and Family Educat
