Discharge Planning Advisor Archives – August 1, 2010
August 1, 2010
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Medical home model can be complementary to hospital DP
A health care model that seeks to improve quality while reducing costs is attracting more attention lately as the health care reform has made it a priority for pilot project funds. -
Medical home model helps DP process with care
Here's a common hospital discharge scenario: the patient is ready to be discharged home, and the hospital has a discharge planner or case manager who is prepared to call the patient's primary care physician (PCP) to discuss the patient's post-discharge care. But who does the discharge planner call? And will anyone respond to the call? -
Physicians use checklists for quality DP
Mistakes happen even to the best clinicians. This is why hospitals increasingly are relying on checklists and other tools to assist clinicians in the discharge process. -
Hospital uses service for follow-up calls
Calling patients after hospital discharge is a good quality improvement and patient satisfaction strategy, but it is often difficult to implement because of resource restraints. -
Provide better ED discharge planning
The health care system benefits when unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided, and sometimes the best place to impact that trend is by focusing discharge services on the hospital emergency department (ED), an expert says. -
What does DP do at patient EOL?
Hospitalized patients with terminal illnesses often feel abandoned by their physicians at the end of their lives. Their physicians might experience a lack of closure that is unsettling.