EvidenceCare

MARCH 11, 2024

GMLOS is calculated by taking the nth root of the product of the length of stay for a series of discharges, where ‘n’ represents the number of discharges. Unlike GMLOS, ALOS is calculated by adding the total number of stay days for a group of patients and dividing by the number of discharges or admissions.

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Discharges Admissions Patient Satisfaction Hospital 130

Scrubs

JULY 31, 2023

Then, when it comes time for discharge, the patient or their caregiver isn’t surprised by the restrictions that some meds may have. We may take it for granted that they understand their meds, particularly if they’ve been taking them for a while, but some questioning could reveal that they aren’t quite as knowledgeable as they should be.

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Discharges Hospital Medication 246

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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Discharges Unit Organization and Environment Performance Improvement Initiatives Hospital 69

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Imagine if the same virtual nurse who cared for you in the hospital performed a virtual visit after discharge or was your hospital to home nurse and connected with your primary care provider for a warm handoff. It can also reduce the workload at the bedside by having remote nurses do admissions, discharges, and answer questions virtually.

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Discharges Transfers Patient Satisfaction Hospital 246

Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

This issue includes information on: Fall Connect Care upgrade and downtime Optimization Training classes in September New Connect Quality project on improving Problem List use, to meet CPSA's Standards of Practice Quality Improvement requirement Enhancement to Admission and Discharge navigators Upcoming Glucometer Overview column in Patient Lists Sorting (..)

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Discharges Admissions Documentation Tests 40

EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’re still facing the same types of denials, especially with short stays where payers push back post-discharge.” Be on the lookout for post discharge audits as the Medicare Advantage plans do not have to follow the two-midnight presumption.

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Documentation Admissions Hospital Discharges 130

Emerging RN Leader

JUNE 7, 2023

With increasing patient volumes, throughput within a facility can be a major pain point in facilitating timely admissions, discharges, and transfers. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Improving communication across departments is often a key concern when discussing conflict areas in leadership programs.

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Communication Discharges Transfers Admissions 78

Scrubs

APRIL 4, 2023

The man was then discharged from the hospital and put in the county jail. Martinek told the officers that handcuffing the patient to the bed was unsafe, so they put him in a four-point restraint instead. But the patient kicked the nurse in the stomach while she was attempting to insert a catheter.

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Discharges Hospital 264

Minority Nurse

MAY 8, 2024

In this role, burn nurses can better assess the needs of their patients post-discharge, anticipating potential problems like lack of transportation, living conditions without heat or electricity, or unstable food resources.

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Discharges Certification Tests Collaboration 105

Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 8, 2024

Donnelly says around 25% of its enquiries come from National Health Service discharge teams and social workers looking to place patients in nursing, dementia and palliative care. Around 20,000 people seeking care are matched with care homes or other providers for free each month, while organizations pay per qualified enquiry.

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Long Term Care Discharges 86

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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Discharges Transfers Admissions 40

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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Discharges Best Practices Admissions Patient Care 105

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. I saw the same people over and over, but there were loads of services for people experiencing homelessness and addiction issues. There was a disconnect between what we were saying and the person,” she said of her experience.

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Acute Care Discharges Critical Thinking Follow-Up 264

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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Scheduling Unit Clerk Discharges Documentation 40

Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 15, 2020

By Stephan Herron, CEO and president, Scriptel Corporation For decades, healthcare providers have relied on putting pen to paper when it comes to signing off on prescriptions, discharge orders or even referrals to specialists. For […].

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Discharges 103

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2024

Next, to the process factors — which involve scheduling, ease of billing and paying, and clear treatment plans at the point of discharge. The most important of these, most consumers say, is the ability to schedule an appointment or procedure within a reasonable timeframe.

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Discharges Scheduling Appointments Billing 62

Scrubs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Asking before they even see a doctor when they are going to be discharged… —Mary Christa Wright 4. —Cindy Flynn 2. I wish they’d stop hunting me down if I don’t come to their room IMMEDIATELY for a nonemergency. —Ar I am tiny and look young. People assume I am a student and ask, “When will you be a real nurse?”

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Discharges Appointments 246

Scrubs

MARCH 15, 2023

UC San Diego Health carefully tracks bed availability, patient discharges, planned procedures, supplies and other data to make timely decisions to expedite bed availability.” The organization also noted that it “is taking every measure possible to care for these patients and attend to their comfort and needs.

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Discharges Patient Safety Hospital Medication 246

Scrubs

MARCH 9, 2023

Madera Community Hospital is dedicated to continuing services to our patients that are in the hospital and will ensure that they are safely transferred or discharged,” the hospital said in a statement earlier this year.

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Hospital Billing Discharges Transfers 246

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Beginning with volume, or utilization, the second table shows that hospital discharges fell by nearly 13% year-over-year in January 2021, emergency department visits dropped nearly 25%, and operating room minutes, 17%. A major contributor to hospitals’ fiscal declines came via expenses rising double-digits per discharge: 25.4%

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Hospital Discharges Outpatient Care 86

Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 26, 2024

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Discharges Admissions Tests 40

Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 30, 2024

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Discharges 40

Discharges Documentation Tests Medication 40

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Having E-RNs to do discharge planning, do rounds with patients, and ensure patients understand their medication goes a long way to preventing readmission and improving the health of the population we serve.” They can walk down the hall and sense when things are not right.

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Discharges Huddles/Rounds Hospital Medication 246

Scrubs

JUNE 6, 2023

They lost touch after he was discharged, but they never forgot about each other. Estabrook landed a job at the burn unit in the Maine Medical Center where she eventually crossed paths with Shaw. He spent five months in the hospital under her care. Shaw went on to marry a woman named Susan. “He He talked about it often,” his wife said. “He

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Discharges Hospital Medication 189

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. This is done through the provincial eScription service , with products appearing in the Netcare electronic health record.

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Transfers Admissions Discharges Hospital 40

Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 9, 2019

Healthcare organizations know just how important it is to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule to protect sensitive and unstructured data such as patient records, scripts, discharge summaries, medical forms, authorizations, prescriptions, and insurance claims. By Paul Banco, CEO, etherFAX.

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HIPAA Discharges Patient Records Insurance 107

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MAY 29, 2024

The previous issues can still be accessed, via the archive in the Connect Care Manual. If you have any feedback on this issue or have a suggestion for content you'd like included in a future issue, please send us an email.

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Discharges Patient Resources 40

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The C-MORE/PHOSP-COVID collaborative group published their results in an important journal—called The Lancet Respiratory Medicine They screened nearly 3000 patients and found about 250 patients who had been admitted and then discharged for COVID-19. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Discharges Admissions Hospital Collaboration 111

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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Discharges Documentation Admissions 40

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

She later found out from a reporter that the family was visiting from out of state and that the baby was discharged from the hospital after two days. “I She said she still thinks about the baby and her mother nearly every day. I just wish I had asked the mom’s name,” Diallo continued. Because I always think about that baby.

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Discharges Hospital Appointments Medication 279

Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 29, 2024

The previous issues can still be accessed, via the archive in the Connect Care Manual.

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Discharges 40

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Any incomplete health records on inpatients discharged on/after May 4, 2024 will be completed in Connect Care. After 05:00 on May 4, 2024, records will be completed through the Connect Care CIS rather than external dictation or eScription. Any outstanding incomplete records that exist at cutover will not be transitioned into Connect Care.

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Discharges 40

Scrubs

AUGUST 9, 2023

This led to better management of patients’ pain, and earlier discharge from the ICU. Chris Cowal , a nursing student at American Sentinel University, looked to current clinical literature to implement a better pain assessment tool in the critical care units at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York.

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Communication Triage Discharges Patient Care 246

Guideway Care

AUGUST 31, 2023

Readmission costs to Medicare is reported at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion of that amount spent on avoidable hospital intakes and readmissions after discharge, according to data from the Center for Health Information and Analysis. Multi-visit patients account for more than half of all readmissions in the United States.

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Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Patient Experience 52

Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 4, 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

Long Term Care 40

Long Term Care Admissions Acute Care Discharges 40

Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They monitor patients’ conditions, administer medication, and convey self-care and discharge information. Educating patients Patients’ lack of compliance with post-discharge self-care routines — including wound management, medication regimens, and occupational therapy — is a common source of preventable errors in health care.

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Patient Safety Discharges Communication Outpatient Care 52

Relias

MAY 6, 2022

The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide. Live discharges. Live discharges where a patient is not terminally ill or for revocation. Reviewing your hospice PEPPER is an important part of your hospice compliance program. Compare reports.

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Hospice Billing Discharges Acute Care 98