Shent worked on stabilizing the patient readmission workflow in the GEMINI-Medicine/Rgemini repository, focusing on improving data retrieval performance and accuracy. Using R and leveraging database interaction skills, Shent addressed a critical bug by ensuring the readmission function used the correct database connection object, which reduced the risk of cross-database data issues. Additionally, Shent refactored the hospital field retrieval logic to efficiently obtain column names from a single-row query in the admdad table, minimizing overhead and enhancing maintainability. This work improved the reliability of readmission metrics, enabled faster reporting, and laid a foundation for clearer data flow in future enhancements.