The CMS Hospital Discharge Planning Standards & Discharge Planning Worksheet
Summary: "The CMS Hospital Discharge Planning Standards & Discharge Planning Worksheet" is the topic of a webinar that MentorHealth, a leading provider of continuing professional education for the healthcare industry, is organizing on May 6. Sue Dill Calloway, President of Patient Safety and Healthcare Consulting and Education, will be the speaker at this webinar.
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This webinar is about the CMS worksheet on discharge planning.
An important requirement relating to the discharge planning worksheet mandated by the CMS is that the necessary medical record information, such as a discharge summary, should be dictated. And, these should be in the hands of the primary care physician or other physician before the first visit.
Any healthcare setting needs to be familiar with the interpretive guidelines and the worksheet information. This webinar will impart important aspects of these guidelines. Since the CMS has recently issued their third revisions to the worksheets; this learning becomes all the more important.
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid must be in compliance with the CMS discharge planning guidelines. However, these standards must be followed for all patients and not just those under Medicare or Medicaid. CMS requires a number of discharge planning policies and procedures.
This webinar offers learning of these. Participants will understand which ones are required and why. This high degree of patient safety and the quality of care being offered by CMS is consistent with its initiative, the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs, which is aimed to keep patients from getting injured or harmed while in the hospital setting. The goal is to reduce hospitals acquired conditions by a fifth. CMS believes that it is only when hospitals are in full compliance with the hospital CoP’s that they will be in a better position to reduce healthcare acquired conditions. This webinar goes a long way in helping hospitals achieve these.
The speaker will cover the following areas:
- CMS issues Discharge Planning memo issued May 17, 2013
- Transmittal issued July 19, 2013
- CMS Deficiency Memo shows this is a problematic area
- Introduction
- Blue box or advisory boxes
- Consolidation of 24 standards into 13 tags
- CMS crosswalk to old tags
- Discharge planning
- Identification of patients in need of discharge planning
- Discharge planning evaluation
- RN, social worker or qualified person to develop evaluation
- Timely evaluation
- Discussion of evaluation with patient or individual acting on their behalf
- Discharge evaluation must be in the medical record
- Discharge plan
- Physician request for discharge planning
- Implementation of the patient's discharge plan
- Reassessment of the discharge plan
- Freedom of choice for LTC or home health agencies
- Transfer or referral
- Crosswalk
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Sue Dill Calloway R.N., M.S.N, J.D. is a nurse attorney and President of Patient Safety and Healthcare Consulting and Education. Sue has been a medico-legal consultant for over 30 years. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers on topics such as nursing law, ethics and nursing, malpractice prevention, HIPAA medical record confidentiality, EMTALA anti-dumping law, Joint Commission issues, CMS issues, documentation, medication errors, medical errors, documentation, pain management, federal laws for nursing, sentinel events, MRI Safety, Legal Issues in Surgery, patient safety and other similar topics.
She does a monthly series on the sections of the Conditions for Coverage for Ambulatory Surgery Centers along with other ASC programs such as Safe Injection Practices. She also writes articles on ambulatory surgery and present educational programs on ambulatory surgery issues. She was affiliated with Mount Carmel College of Nursing as an adjunct nursing professor for over fifteen years. She was also a trial attorney for eight years defending nurses, physicians and healthcare facilities.
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This webinar will benefit
- Discharge Planners
- Transitional Care Nurses
- Case Managers
- Social Workers
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Compliance Officer
- Chief Operation Officer
- Chief Medical Officers
- Physicians
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