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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can artificial intelligence improve discharge planning? Has AI finally found a role in day-to-day healthcare? The answer is a tentative maybe. "Timely patient discharge requires a coordinated effort ...

Medicare offers a free, downloadable tool designed to help patients and their caregivers plan for discharge. The tool, entitled Your Discharge Planning Checklist, lists action items patients should ...

The Trump administration issued a long-awaited final rule on how hospitals must handle discharge planning, introducing new requirements on records access. The rule released on Thursday by the Centers ...

The patient needed a ventilator or she would die. The hospital wanted to discharge her, but there was no place she could go. As the surge of coronavirus infections created a terrifying shortage of ...