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The discharge planning worksheet states that medical record information, such as a discharge summary, should be dictated and in the hands of the primary care physician or other physician before the first post hospital visit. The proposed changes will require that this be done within 48 hours of discharge. Is your hospital familiar with the interpretive guidelines and the worksheet information? Come learn what other important things CMS has in their final worksheet which addresses preventing hospital readmissions.

This program will also cover the CMS hospital discharge planning standards. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rewrote all of the interpretive guidelines on the hospital discharge planning standards in July 19, 2013 to match what is in the current worksheet. The memo was 39 pages long and the prior 24 standards were consolidated into 13.

Come join this important webinar to learn about what your hospital has to do to be in compliance with the discharge planning standards. CMS has published data showing the number of deficiencies that hospitals have already received in the discharge planning standards and this data will be provided.

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After this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the CMS has published a worksheet on discharge planning
2. Recall that CMS has discharge planning standards that every hospital must follow
3. Discuss when information about the discharge must be provided to the primary care physician who will be following up the patient after discharge.

Target Audience:

Discharge planners, transitional care nurses, social workers, chief nursing officers, compliance officers, chief operation officers, chief executive officers, chief medical officers, physicians, all nurses with direct patient care, risk managers, social workers, regulatory officers, physician advisors, UR nurses, compliance officers, The Joint Commission coordinator, nurse educators, staff nurses, nurse managers, PI directors, health information directors, billing office directors, patient safety officers, and anyone else involved with the discharge planning. Any person serving on a hospital committee to redesign the discharge process to prevent unnecessary readmissions should also attend.  

Agenda topics:

- CMS Deficiency Memo	- Blue box or advisory box
- Discharge planning	- 48 hour rule
- Patient transfers	- Self care assessment
- Screening vs evaluation	And that's just the beginning!

 

Your order includes:  

• Recording of the presentation.
• Access to the specially created presentation handouts.

 

Your Speaker: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD

 

Sue is a nurse attorney, medico-legal consultant and long-time educator for nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers. She is a frequent speaker and is well known across the country in the areas of healthcare law, risk management, and patient safety. She has authored over 100 books and hundreds of articles. For Relias Media, she authored Cracking the Code: Understanding the CMS Hospital CoP Standards on Anesthesia.

Ms. Calloway received her Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Additionally, she is certified in healthcare risk management by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and is the first in the country to be certified in CMS regulatory compliance.