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Get PDFA poster advertising a pop-up exhibition celebrating Asian and Asian American culture held April 6-10, 2021. Artworks were selected by Hope College\u27s Asian Student Union.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1042/thumbnail.jp
Black Heroes and History: Student Selections from the KAM Collection
Get PDFA poster advertising a pop-up exhibition held February 23-27, 2021. Artworks were selected by Hope College Black Student Union members.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1040/thumbnail.jp
The Effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on Non-Targeted Interventions
Get PDFAccording to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, the rate of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients fell from 18.3 percent in 2010 to 17.1 percent in 2016. Still, since avoidable readmission within 30 days of discharge is a negative healthcare outcome and costly, whether the readmission is due to low-quality care or random complication, it captures the attention of healthcare cost-conscious policymakers. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), implemented in 2012, aims to decrease readmission following selected procedures. This research analyzes the effect of the HRRP on readmission rates that were not a part of the HRRP’s intended scope, referred to as non-targeted readmission rates. If hospital administrators are sensitive to payment changes, they have an incentive to reduce the probability of avoidable readmissions, potentially shifting resources, adopting new practices, and utilizing new technologies to improve health outcomes for targeted treatments. Moreover, if hospitals learn from their new practices or can make use of the improved technology in treating non-targeted conditions, the direct and intended effects of HRRP may spillover to readmission reductions for non-targeted procedures. Readmission spillover effects, if they exist, would provide suggestive evidence that HRRP can have an even broader benefit by shifting hospitals toward so-called “value-based care” thinking. With data from CMS Hospital Compare data archive and the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program surgical patient readmission data, this research models both targeted and non-targeted intervention readmission rates before and after the HRRP for hospitals bound by the HRRP and those that are not. Since hospitals that already exhibit lower than national average readmission rates in the targeted procedures face no incentives from HRRP, they provide a plausible control group for HRRP-treated hospitals and an opportunity for causal inference through a Difference in Differences approach
Drawing with Light: Mezzotint Prints from the Rossof Collection
Get PDFA poster advertising a mezzotint exhibition held January 19-June 26, 2021. Prints from the Rossof Collection.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1044/thumbnail.jp
Michael Ayrton\u27s Minotaur Suite
Get PDFA poster advertising an exhibition of Michael Ayrton\u27s Minotaur Suite held May 28-August 28, 2021.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1045/thumbnail.jp
Hope College Abstracts: 20th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
Get PDFThe 20th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity was held online on April 30, 2021. The event featured student-faculty collaborative research projects presented remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This program is a record reflective of those projects between the 2020-2021 academic year
Church Herald Index
Get PDFAn index to The Church Herald, a publication of the Reformed Church in America. The index covers 1951-2009
Native American Art: Recent Acquisitions from the Kruizenga Museum Collection
Get PDFA poster advertising an exhibition of recent acquisitions of Native American art held September 10-December 11, 2021.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1047/thumbnail.jp