Post Author: Rafiat Banwo, OTD

Rafiat Banwo is a health care operational and transformational leader, visioneer, and founder of the CATALYST Network, an initiative dedicated to solving her coined term, the “Patient Carryover Crisis,” and reducing avoidable patient readmissions that create penalties and risks for SNFs and hospitals worldwide through health literacy and workflow engineering. Her publication, The Patient Carryover Crisis, highlights this work. She can be reached through her LinkedIn profile and the CATALYST Network Consults website.

Rafiat Banwo is a health care operational and transformational leader, visioneer, and founder of the CATALYST Network, an initiative dedicated to solving her coined term, the "Patient Carryover Crisis," and reducing avoidable patient readmissions that create penalties and risks for SNFs and hospitals worldwide through health literacy and workflow engineering. Her publication, The Patient Carryover Crisis, highlights this work. She can be reached through her LinkedIn profile and the CATALYST Network Consults website.
I still remember the feeling of relief standing by my uncle’s bedside. The monitors were humming with steady rhythms; the surgical team was congratulating themselves on a textbook procedure. By all clinical metrics, he was a success story. The intervention worked. The pathology was addressed. He was “stable.”
We celebrated his discharge as a victory lap. We trusted that the packet of papers in his hand (filled with appointments, medication schedules, …
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