Discharge planning is a process that should begin as soon as patients are admitted to the hospital. In a perfect world, healthcare team members, patients, and families communicate and work together to ...

Our Health Care Group analyzes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ long-awaited final rule on discharge planning, focused on data sharing and patient preferences. Focus on patient goals and ...

On November 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Proposed Rule that would revise the discharge planning conditions of participation (CoPs) for Hospitals, Critical Access ...

Have you ever attended a discharge planning meeting, either as a patient or family caregiver? In this day and age, every healthcare consumer should know what these are. Discharge planning meetings are ...

Aligning Forces for Quality offers free, downloadable discharge planning tools for heart failure patients. The resources were crafted by Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore. The heart failure discharge ...

Better discharge planning is within our reach, if we care to make the effort ...

At the time of hospital discharge, ill-informed patients often face time-pressured decisions to find an appropriate post-acute care provider. Hospital discharge to a post-acute setting is often among ...

A new study shows the value of integrating caregivers into the discharge process for elderly patients: far fewer readmissions. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Health Policy Institute ...

I’ve been hired at a long-term care facility as a care manager, and my entire background has been in case management from the acute care side. What in particular should I know about discharge planning ...

Discharge planning is fraught with pitfalls for hospitals, according to a new report, but effective communication and adaptability can help providers avoid them. The United Hospital Fund, a New ...

Dear Mary, You recently wrote about planning for a hospital visit. Unfortunately, my father’s chronic condition often sends him for brief hospital stays and, although you would think I’d know the ...

There’s a feel-good national story that debuted last week around how emergency responders helped an 81-year-old man. As reported by various media outlets, the Army veteran had been in a “hospital and ...