Relationship Between Readmission and Access to Care Among Kansas Elders with Heart FaUurc Ann Cynthia Hornberger 1999 I Relationship Between Readmission and Access to Care Among Kansas Elders with Heart Failure by Cynthia Ann Hornberger B. A., University of Kansas, 1976 B.S.N., Washburn University, 1978 M.S., University of Kansas, 1989 M.B.A., University of Kansas, 1992 Submitted to the School of Nursing and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dissertation defended: April 21, 1999