Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Former President Bill Clinton was discharged from the hospital after being treated for the flu. Meanwhile, here's the latest from the CDC about influenza cases increasing

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Billing Hospital Discharges 113

Scrubs

JULY 23, 2023

Took longer to discharge the patient than it did to treat him. The parents even insisted that the surgeon wear a certain crystal as a necklace while performing the cannulation! Kim Gutridge Zornow 4. A Wiccan altar set up in a room in the ER. The patient was being seen for a broken toe. Carrie Bittay-D’Intino 5. Bob Hayward 6.

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Hospital Discharges 246

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 206

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 Critical Thinking Discharges Follow-Up 261

Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Integrated Discharge Planning 'Traffic Lights' The Rapid Rounds patient list includes a "Readiness" column with 'traffic light' symbols indicative of a patient's readiness for discharge. Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Manual: Transition Planning

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Discharges Huddles/Rounds Documentation Communication 40

Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 26, 2024

Enhancements to Core Admission and Discharge Navigators Connect Care uses "Navigators" to help prescribers complete complex workflows when key tasks are easy to forget. Core "Admission" and "Discharge" navigators organize review (e.g., discharge summary) steps that must be completed in a specific order.

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Discharges Admissions Documentation Medication 40

Scrubs

MARCH 7, 2023

When Small’s babies were discharged from the hospital several months after she gave birth, Mullen asked if they could exchange numbers, and the two have been a part of each other’s lives ever since. Fortunately, Katrina Mullen was the nurse assigned to look after Small’s children.

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Discharges Hospital Huddles/Rounds Scheduling 290

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.

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Follow-Up Discharges Triage Insurance 110

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 244

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 242

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

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

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 242

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

Scrubs

JANUARY 30, 2023

After discharging the amniotic fluid from the artificial womb, you will be able to easily remove your baby from the growth pod. “EctoLife provides you a safe, pain-free alternative that helps you deliver your baby without stress. The delivery process is smooth, convenient, and can be done with just a push of a button,” the company said.

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Vital Signs Discharges 264

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

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

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

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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Billing Discharges Hospital Admissions 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 185

Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

When she was finally discharged, her medical bills totaled nearly half a million dollars. She soon underwent heart bypass surgery. One valve needed to be replaced and one repaired. Overall, she spent a month in the hospital recovering from surgery.

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Billing Medication Insurance Hospital 245

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

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

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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Documentation Admissions Discharges Billing 130

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. I do know that if hospital systems were incentivized to help patients with heart failure, they would improve post-discharge follow-up to something along the lines of STRONG-HF. Here were the results.

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Discharges Follow-Up Admissions Hospital 91

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

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

AUGUST 3, 2023

If a patient has recently been discharged from hospital, she’ll obtain the hospital records because she knows I’ll want to see them. Robert Rowley, MD, a practicing family physician with Hayward Family Care in the San Francisco Bay area, says he appreciates his nurse because she goes farther than that.

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Vital Signs Hospital Discharges Huddles/Rounds 246

Medical Economics

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Patients hospitalized by physicians with higher admission rates are likelier to be discharged within 24 hours but no less likely to die.

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Admissions Discharges Hospital 59

Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In this group, medications were up-titrated to recommended doses within 2 weeks of discharge and four scheduled outpatient visits were completed in the 2 months after discharge. We should not conclude that patients should be started on 3-4 new meds prior to discharge. High intensity care was the GDMT group.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Medication 99

Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Effective TCM programs include key components such as comprehensive discharge planning, medication reconciliation, and patient education, which collectively enhance patient engagement and outcomes. Initiatives such as Project RED and BOOST augment care transitions by conducting follow-up calls with patients.

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Discharges Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Transfers 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

George tells us about being discharged home after dealing with heart failure in the hospital. Take George and Audrey. See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs.

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Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Vital Signs 144

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

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. Note: CMS documents how each ICD-10 code can be either a CC or MCC here. Something had to change. What role does a patient’s DRG play in CareGauge?

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Hospital Discharges Documentation Admissions 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

Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2019

Prepared Health’s platform enables hospitals to connect, collaborate and react in real-time with the multiple providers involved in a patient’s care post discharge including post-acute, […].

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Hospital Discharges Collaboration 79

Scrubs

JULY 20, 2023

It was a fantastic feeling discharging him. After 6 hrs of arguing with docs, they finally agreed to take a patient (who had just had his 8th heart attack) up to the critical care unit; he wanted to fight because his wife had Alzheimer’s and he didn’t want her to be on her own. He survived and came back to the ward. – Helen C.

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Discharges Patient Experience Medication 189