Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 30, 2024

Guide: Patient Movement Guide Guide: Patient Movement Continuing Care Readiness Guide: Home Care and Supportive Living Admissions, Discharges, and Transfers Manual: Readiness Events Contact: connectcare.patientmovement@ahs.ca

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 8 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 8 prescribers readying for launch May 4, 2024.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Documentation : Use paper forms or eScription for essential documentation for procedures or intervention results and reports. DOWNTIME” (SmartPhrase) to complete the chart element, indicating that content is available elsewhere in the chart.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 26, 2024

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2024

I often say that in an outpatient setting an infusion nurse operates in five areas of nursing serving as an admissions nurse , case manager, infusion nurse, charge nurse, and discharge nurse. Witnessing patients’ journeys from diagnosis to healing at discharge is incredibly fulfilling.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Each session will cover the same content, including Admission to Long-Term Care/Continuing Care, Offsite Dialysis Appointments, and Leave of Absence to Acute Care with Return. The week of March 11 –15 includes 1-hour Patient Movement Fundamentals readiness sessions, offered on three separate days.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In June 2021, Montefiore was evaluating performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient experiences and alleviate flow challenges and decided to open a discharge lounge. The idea of a discharge lounge isn’t new, but being assisted by the clinician with whom patients just bonded is.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Patients may develop a disease that requires admission to the hospital, mostly because of lung problems, such as the need for oxygen. Indirect organ damage is common in medical conditions that are severe enough to warrant admission to the hospital. The disease might affect other organs—either directly or indirectly.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

report states "Ralph" but patient’s name is "Zach") Revise left vs. right, and vice versa Revise incorrect ULI Revise incorrect Out of Province Health Care Number Revise patient age Revise date of: Admission Discharge Deceased Birth The Chart Correction team will continue to notify the authoring provider, as needed, for other types of errors (e.g.,

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Scrubs

AUGUST 27, 2023

Tang also worries that inflation will make it harder to discharge patients from hospitals as temperatures drop. “As

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Accepted Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

Having worked in admissions for over two decades, I have read thousands of activity descriptions for medical school and related healthcare fields. Other applicants fill out only a few of their activity descriptions, leaving the admissions committees to wonder what they did with the rest of their time. Applying to Medical School?

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DrChrono

JANUARY 3, 2023

From admission to discharge and beyond, secure, reliable, and accurate record-keeping is paramount to exceptional continuity of care. Medical records are an integral component of the clinical process.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Patients may develop a disease that requires admission to the hospital, mostly because of lung problems, such as the need for oxygen. Indirect organ damage is common in medical conditions that are severe enough to warrant admission to the hospital. The disease might affect other organs—either directly or indirectly.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. I’ll have it done by the time I discharge.” Sandra had been admitted weeks before Luciana and would not be discharged for a few more weeks to come. ” “Wonderful, we’ll coordinate transportation and plan for discharge tomorrow morning.”

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes.

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Milwaukee Career College

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Other typical duties include collecting specimens and running diagnostic tests, taking X-rays or various brain scans, managing the admissions and discharge process, taking vitals, and educating patients on proper care procedures.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

Deliberate practice during internship is probably even more important today than it was in the days before duty hour restrictions and admission caps. Whatever else goes on in the hospital, this is a problem that needs to be addressed, if not solved, prior to discharge. To force deliberate practice, concentrate on being proactive.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

From understanding the audit requirements to implementing technology for streamlined admission documentation , this article offers actionable strategies to ensure hospitals are well-prepared for the rigorous evaluation process. Think of your documentation as the ironclad defense for your hospital admissions.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The first chart exhibited that the highest charges for coronavirus hospital admissions were generated among those 51 to 60. But we must also connect the dots between the costs of coronavirus care and people who are uninsured who cannot afford to pay a hospital $45,000 at discharge. The post The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Utilizing data from the most recent three calendar years, the PEPPER offers providers specific Medicare data statistics for discharges or services that may be vulnerable to improper payments. Admission source. Why should you read the PEPPER? The report is available for the following facilities: Skilled nursing facilities.

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Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

CDA The HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an XML-based standard that offers a structure or format for sharing clinical data such as progress notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes. HL7 Messages are used to transfer healthcare data between disparate systems, each sending information about events such as patient admission.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The nurse in the Medical-Surgical Unit suspects worsening respiratory distress, noticing that Mr. Salzo has become increasingly anxious and is moving about restlessly in bed during the admission assessment. Oxygen therapy via nasal cannula 2 L O2 is placed on the patient, and the nurse contacts the SWAT RN, who arrives in less than 5 minutes.

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Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It is important that patients released from your agency’s care are positioned to avoid hospital admissions for potentially preventable conditions within the first 30 days of release. Your reporting should show that your patients remain alive with no unplanned hospitalizations in the 31 days following discharge from home health services.

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Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

By identifying patients with complex needs or those at risk for re-admission, healthcare providers can focus their efforts on high-risk patients, improving care coordination and reducing unnecessary hospitalizations. Predictive analytics can also be used to optimize care management and resource allocation.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care. It can help reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and ED visits and improve patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety.

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Southern Careers Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They may perform tasks such as drawing blood, collecting specimens, and assisting with patient admissions and discharges. In hospital settings, medical assistants often work in various departments, including emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, and surgical units.

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EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

They would submit their charges post-discharge and be reimbursed. Getting a working DRG quickly helps provide a target discharge date and impacts average length of stay. Early in the stay – sometimes within minutes of the admission – we assign a “working DRG” to the encounter. Something had to change.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

what’s on their admissions website) and show that you’ve done your research. If you do a good job at showing your fit for a program and highlight your unique qualities in a way that might not have come across as admissions committee members ticked off boxes on their checklists, a Letter of Interest can give you the boost you need.

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Accepted Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

For this section of our Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know To Get Accepted series, I’ll provide a brief rundown of what happens after you graduate from medical school. By your final year, you can admit, treat, and discharge patients on your own and do some procedures without supervision.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. Patients who reported at least one SDoH concern were less likely to complete a physician follow-up visit post-discharge than patients who reported no SDOH concerns.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. Hospital costs could average over $20,000, the report calculated.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 10, 2024

These revisions include: Removal of time ranges from office or other outpatient visit codes (99202-99205, 99212-99215) and the alignment of the format with other E/M codes A definition to determine the “substantive portion” of a split/shared E/M visit in which a physician and a non-physician practitioner work jointly to furnish all the work related (..)

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome to the 540th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Whether you are applying to a niche, innovative graduate program or more traditional one, the challenge at the heart of admissions is showing that you both fit in at your target schools and are a standout in the applicant pool. Thanks for joining me. My pleasure.

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Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

For those eight weeks, I witnessed more patients slip away right beside me than I’ve ever seen in all my admissions collectively – lying next to a stale blue curtain that was closed around a still body was an uncomfortable thought and presence. The year-long hospital admission following numerous abdominal surgeries was hard.

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CareerStep

MAY 27, 2024

Job duties of an institutional pharmacy technician Some job duties unique to a hospital pharmacy technician include: Filling medication orders (as opposed to prescriptions) Routinely preparing 24–72 hour supplies of patient medications in a form appropriate for a single administration to a patient (as opposed to a 30 or 90 day supply) Prepackaging (..)

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Arkenea

JUNE 27, 2024

It supports inpatient care needs such as real-time tracking of patient information, patient admission and discharge, and management of complex medical data. Acute Care Acute care EMR software is largely used in hospitals and other inpatient care facilities.

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Setting Sights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Without delving into the clinical details that necessitated my admission, I was kept in, at Hospital A, where it was agreed I’d require urgent stomach surgery to fix the problem. Quite early on in my admission there, one doctor (perhaps somewhat obliviously?) The big catch here was that I had no team. I had nobody looking after me.

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