At the end of February, the Office of Inspector General published a report called, “Skilled Nursing Facilities Often Fail To Meet Care Planning and Discharge Planning Requirements.” Let’s take a look ...

This is a two-part unit on preparing patients for hospital discharge following surgery for colorectal cancer. Part 1 explored the rationale for different surgical procedures, and discussed common side ...

As greater attention is given to ensuring safe and successful patient discharges, those organizations who want to be on the “A” list as a preferred provider of transitional care services must have a ...

The CMS on Wednesday released final rules that cut some of the regulatory mandates for Medicare and Medicaid providers, but discharge planning requirements for hospitals, critical access hospitals and ...