CMS Proposed Changes to the Discharge Planning Standards and the IMPACT Act 2016 covers topics such as:
- 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
CMS Proposed Changes to the Discharge Planning Standards and the IMPACT Act 2016 brings together 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
