In a long anticipated regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) and home health agency (HHA) conditions of ...

Discharge planning plays a pivotal role in transitioning patients from one level of care to the next. This process requires patients, caregivers and providers to create an individualized plan to ...

(Boston)-- Being a parent of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) infant does not come with its own playbook of instructions. Preparing to care for a medically needy infant requires the mastery of ...

According to the researchers, the discharge planning process has long-term implications because part of the life course of adults who were born preterm is positively and negatively influenced early on ...

Reducing length of stay (LOS) and implementing an accurate and efficient discharge planning process are two of the most difficult operational challenges for hospitals and health systems. In a session ...

CMS has revised guidelines for the discharge planning condition of participation in the State Operations Manual. The revisions show the consolidation of 24 previous discharge planning tags into ...

Last week, in Part One, I talked about the Discharge Planning Process. In Part Two, I wanted to continue the discussion and expand on how effective discharge planning can improve outcomes. In workers' ...

The SNF discharge process from inpatient care to recovery at home should be characterized by patient education, caregiver engagement, and follow-up from SNF staff, according to a new report from ...