Thursday, June 18, 2009

Hospital Discharge - Let's Get it Right

Patients are staying fewer days in the hospital and receiving "post-op" and "post-hospital" care at home. The days of staying 10 days for an appendectomy, or hysterectomy, or pneumonia or joint replacement or just about anything are long gone. These shorter hospital stays require patients to really understand what will happen when they go home. Coordination about appropriate follow-up is