Pneumonia Project (PNE)

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• 90% of pneumonia deaths occur in the population aged 65 years and older

• Pneumonia accounts for nearly 4.5 million inpatient days each year

• Pneumonia is responsible for more than 500,000 ED visits each year

Pneumonia, which is largely preventable with appropriate immunizations, strikes the Medicare population especially hard as 90% of all deaths from pneumonia occur in individuals over the age of 65.

The average length of stay for the 31,000 Medicare beneficiaries admitted to Ohio hospitals with pneumonia was 6.2 days. This diagnosis, as you well know, translates into millions of dollars of losses for hospitals each year.