The U.S. health system should focus on pre-acute care, not post-acute

The U.S. health system should focus on pre-acute care, not post-acute
Forbes, by Howard Gleckman; 3/5/24
The U.S. health system focuses an enormous amount of money and attention on post-acute care—the medical treatment patients receive after they have been discharged from a hospital. But it would more cost-effective, and far better for patients, to refocus on what you might call pre-acute care: what the U.S. can do to prevent those hospitalizations in the first place.