Discharge Planning is one of the most important functions that workers' compensation case managers perform. Depending on where you meet your patient, an inpatient hospital or rehabilitation facility, ...

In a long anticipated regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) and home health agency (HHA) conditions of ...

Discharge planning plays a pivotal role in transitioning patients from one level of care to the next. This process requires patients, caregivers and providers to create an individualized plan to ...

Last week, in Part One, I talked about the Discharge Planning Process. In Part Two, I wanted to continue the discussion and expand on how effective discharge planning can improve outcomes. In workers' ...

Reducing length of stay (LOS) and implementing an accurate and efficient discharge planning process are two of the most difficult operational challenges for hospitals and health systems. In a session ...

(Boston)-- Being a parent of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) infant does not come with its own playbook of instructions. Preparing to care for a medically needy infant requires the mastery of ...

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 ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by the task of organizing a loved one's return home from the hospital? ?? ?? ????. Data analytics are changing the way healthcare providers handle patient discharge and ...