The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden. Where do we gain funding?

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Follow-Up Discharges Triage Insurance 109

Minority Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2024

Their standards have been instrumental in shaping my policies and procedures, ensuring best practices in infusion nursing. 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.

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Discharges Best Practices Admissions Patient Care 105

EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Vanderbilt-led study will build on the burgeoning national effort to unite ICU clinicians and primary care providers in providing comprehensive care for patients starting when they are discharged from the ICU and continuing through transitional outpatient care.

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Discharges Collaboration Outpatient Care Care Plan 59

Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

Manage Transition of Care: SDOH data informs post-discharge plans, considering social factors to support smoother transitions and reduce readmissions. Stratify Patients by Risk: SDOH data combined with clinical information helps identify high-risk patients, enabling targeted interventions and resource allocation.

Discharges 52

Discharges HIPAA Admissions Medical Assistant 52

Walker Info - Patient Experience

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the process enhancements are utilizing it to allow patients to communicate (often through nurses) with their providers and allowing patient access while within the hospital so they can better understand treatment that is taking place and what steps remain on the road to discharge.

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Follow-Up Customer Service Discharges Tests 52

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Improving the time from a hospital discharge order being placed to getting the patient out the door: A hospital (I think it was UCLA) has been working on identifying and eliminating the things that delay getting patients out the door after they’ve been discharged.

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Discharges Hospital Collaboration Admissions 76