Community Hospital had 23,652 admissions. Of these, 1569 were readmissions. What is the hospital's readmission rate?
1569/23,652 = ?
0.06
To find the hospital's readmission rate, we need to calculate the percentage of readmissions compared to the total number of admissions.
First, we need to find the number of unique admissions by subtracting the number of readmissions from the total admissions:
unique admissions = total admissions - readmissions
unique admissions = 23,652 - 1,569
unique admissions = 22,083
Next, we can calculate the readmission rate by dividing the number of readmissions by the number of unique admissions and multiplying by 100 to get the percentage:
readmission rate = (readmissions / unique admissions) * 100
readmission rate = (1,569 / 22,083) * 100
readmission rate ≈ 7.10%
Therefore, the hospital's readmission rate is approximately 7.10%.