Program seeks to cut New Jersey hospital readmissions

New Jersey seniors are readmitted to hospitals more often than those in most other states, often because of what experts say are preventable breakdowns in care. Now Virtua Health plans to launch an ambitious effort to tackle this problem by better educating its departing patients and reconnecting them to family doctors. The system hopes to ease the often treacherous transition period when medication errors often occur and follow-up care can be missed.