Discharge Planning
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Making Patients Part of the Team Helps Hospital Cut LOS, Boost HCAHPS Scores
Length of stay dropped and patient satisfaction rose when Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta began holding Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds.
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The Who, Where, and How of Rounding Makes a Big Difference
The biggest challenge in establishing multidisciplinary rounds is getting everybody on the team to participate.
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Interdisciplinary Rounds Must be Short and Well Organized
Interdisciplinary rounds must be quick and orderly — otherwise, key members of the team won’t join in.
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Does Discharging a Patient Make You Feel Like You’re Herding Cats?
Multidisciplinary rounds that bring together the entire treatment team and, often, patients and family members, are a key in relieving the chaos that often occurs on the day of discharge.
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March 8 is Deadline for Giving MOON to Patients
CMS has set March 8 as the date on which hospitals are required to give patients receiving observation services the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice.
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When You Have a New Patient, Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Hospital case managers should create alliances with primary care providers who can share information that will help in creating a discharge plan, according to the chief executive officer of El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, AZ.
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Some Joint Replacement Patients May Go Home the Same Day as Surgery
Joint replacement patients who meet criteria can be discharged the same day after surgery through a program at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
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Case Management Department Revamped in Response to Shift in Reimbursement
As DCH Health System in Tuscaloosa, AL, began to assume more risk for patients after discharge, the leadership redesigned the case management department to meet the new challenges.
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Track SNF, Home Health Performance, and Share Data with Patients
If you’re not monitoring length of stay and cost of care data from your post-acute providers, you could be jeopardizing your hospital’s bottom line when pay-for-performance initiatives kick in.
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Collecting Data is a Key to Success — But You Have to Use it, Too
Hospital leadership and staff need to look at new ways of delivering care to succeed in the rapidly changing healthcare marketplace as CMS and commercial payers move toward basing reimbursement on quality.