CMS Proposed Changes to the Discharge Planning Standards and the IMPACT Act 2016

Key Topics

• Proposed changes to the cms discharge planning cops
  • Discharge planning worksheet
  • History
  • Relationship to IMPACT Act
  • Prevention of hospital readmissions
  • Discharge plan
  • Focus on patient goals and preferences
  • Identification of discharge needs must be done with 24 hours
  • Applies to inpatients, ED, observation and same day surgery patients
  • Ability to do self care
  • Qualified person to coordinate discharge needs evaluation
  • Redrafting the discharge planning evaluation form to include new requirements
  • Transfer form new requirements
  • Medication reconciliation
  • 5 requirements of discharge instructions
  • Discharge summary to provider within 48 hours
  • Notification of side effects of medications
• IMPACT act
  • History and reason for law
  • Federal law
  • Determining most appropriate setting
  • Four options for post-acute providers (PAC) which includes home health, SNF, inpatient rehab and LTC hospitals
  • Standardized assessment and five requirements
  • Requirement to measure five things including functional status and changes, skin integrity and changes, medication reconciliation etc
  • Resource use measures
  • Use of common standards and definitions

Who should Attend

Attendees with job titles such as:

• Transitional care nurses
• Discharge planners
• Chief nursing officer (CNO)
• Social workers
• Chief operation officer
• Compliance officer
• Physicians
• Chief medical officers
• Risk managers
• All nurses with direct patient care
• Regulatory officer
• Social workers
• UR nurses
• Physician advisor
• Joint commission coordinator
• Compliance officer
• Chief operating officer
• Nurse educators
• Staff nurses
• Chief executive officer
• Nurse managers
• Physicians
• Health information director
• PI director
• Patient safety officer
• Billing office director