The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

You demand an immediate safety review to understand what happened and why. The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals. She was discharged with blood pressure medication.

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Follow-Up Discharges Appointments Hospital 103

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MARCH 17, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly.

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Patient Safety Communication Teamwork Follow-Up 52

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. As part of discharge planning.

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Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Follow-Up Documentation 52

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JULY 20, 2023

During discharge planning when documenting in the electronic medical record, the care team should perform a thorough assessment of behavioral and social risks and act on any identified risks to ensure appropriate evaluation and care. This would involve putting resources into place prior to discharging the patient — not just checking a box.

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