We all know that discharge planning is not a one-and-done checkbox. It’s an evolving process and one that is layered, ...

CMS has revised guidelines for the discharge planning condition of participation in the State Operations Manual. The revisions show the consolidation of 24 previous discharge planning tags into ...

A reduction in hospital readmissions may improve quality and reduce costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has initiated a national effort to measure and publicly report on the ...

Keeping good documentation of the process as well as ensuring that the entire Interdisciplinary team is involved will be instrumental for the success of a good discharge plan.

Its main objectives were to reduce the risk of poor discharge planning and share current practice on different wards to determine best practice, developing hospital-wide, systematic documentation and ...

Essential to an effective discharge planning conversation are aligning ... activities and integrate with EHRs to avoid double documentation, automation platforms such as Qventus can optimize ...

The results indicated that the documentation of discussions in the MDT meeting and agreements of any actions were generally poor. It was not in the scope of this particular project to develop specific ...

A carefully crafted hospital discharge plan, shared with outpatient doctors ... The record of your patient’s hospital stay is where you document their diagnosis, testing, treatments, medications ...

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute found hospitals that involved family members or unpaid caregivers in the discharge planning process had a 25% reduction in ...