Work / Independent / 2026
Hospital Readmissions & Cost Building now
Palm Beach County healthcare · started Oct 2026
A 300-bed Palm Beach County hospital can fund post-discharge follow-up for 20% of inpatients. Which patients should get it, how many readmissions would that prevent, and does it pay for itself?
The question
Follow-up calls and visits prevent readmissions, but a hospital can’t do them for everyone. Who should get the limited slots, and what’s the return?
Data
About 20,000 synthetic Florida patients (Synthea), CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program measures for Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie hospitals, and local hospital price-transparency files.
Plan
Readmission logic in PostgreSQL, a risk model in scikit-learn to rank patients, an ROI model for the 20% budget, and a Power BI dashboard comparing local hospitals.
Status
Building in public. Progress goes in the journal.