Due to the COVID-19 health crisis, many nursing homes are seeing increased requests from residents and family for therapeutic leaves and resident-initiated discharges. This is a refresher on the ...

Unnecessary hospital readmissions occur for various reasons, including incomplete discharge planning, a lack of follow-up from the hospital, patients’ difficulty in adhering to medication regimens and ...

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 ...

Dear Mr. Premack: My mother was in the hospital for surgery, and was discharged home with some dressings that need to be changed and a drainage tube that needs to be kept clear. I was with her when ...

Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry has experienced a marked shift to home-based care as more and more patients – including seniors – opt to recover at home rather than in a long ...