PointClickCare, a leading health tech company helping providers deliver exceptional care, today announced new AI capabilities ...

CMS has developed a free, downloadable discharge planning checklist for patients preparing to leave a hospital or other healthcare setting. “Your Discharge Planning Checklist” is a six-page pamphlet ...

A reduction in hospital readmissions may improve quality and reduce costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has initiated a national effort to measure and publicly report on the conduct ...

Gennaro Luce learned firsthand about the stress involved with finding an extended-care facility that matched his wife’s grandmother’s needs when they were handed a list of options a day and a half ...

The patient needed a ventilator or she would die. The hospital wanted to discharge her, but there was no place she could go. As the surge of coronavirus infections created a terrifying shortage of ...

—A type 2 diabetes patient develops hyperglycemia hospital admission for pneumonia. What steps should be taken upon his discharge to outpatient care? Reviewed by Clifton Jackness, MD, Attending ...

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 ...

To the Editor: Jha and colleagues (Dec. 31 issue) 1 report no association between hospital performance on one of two measures of discharge planning and rates of hospital readmissions within 30 days ...