Opportunities for Collaboration: Refining Postoperative Readmission Risk for Skilled Nursing Facility Patients

Post-acute and long-term care providers (both physicians and advanced practice providers) depend on well-executed hospital discharge plans. This is due to concerns about patient safety as well as ensuring our ability to deliver prompt, high-level medical care.1,2 The nursing facility also relies on well-communicated discharge plans to ensure necessary medications are available from the pharmacy in a timely manner, a patient's necessary medical equipment has been delivered, and to ensure that staff education, skills, and competency are vetted to meet the needs of this increasingly complex posthospital population.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - August 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Jennifer L. Carnahan, Ellen W. Kaehr, Kamal C. Wagle Tags: Editorial Source Type: research