Discharge Planning Worksheet and Standards: Ensuring Compliance with the CMS Hospital CoPs and Proposed Changes
This program will discuss the final surveyor worksheet for assessing compliance with the CMS hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for discharge planning. This worksheet is used by State and Federal surveyors on all survey activity in hospitals assessing compliance with the discharge planning standards.
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 2019 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, such as addressing hospital readmissions and:
- Discharge planning policy requirements
- Important four factors in discharge planning
- Feedback process from post-acute hospital providers (LTC, home health)
- Reducing number of hospital readmissions
Program Highlights
Discharge planning
- Discharge planning process
- Discharge planning P&P required
- Transition planning or community care transitions
- Reducing number of hospital readmission
- Causes of preventable readmissions
- Inpatients verses outpatients
- Four stage discharge planning process
Discharge planning evaluation
- Identification of patients in need of discharge planning
- Discharge plan for every patients; optional or mandatory?
- Important four factors in discharge planning
- P&P must include criteria and screening process
- Identification at early stage for discharge planning
- 48-hour rule
- Patient transfers
- Discharge planning evaluation
Evaluation of likelihood of needing post hospital services
- Self-care assessment
- Screening verses evaluation
- Evaluation requirements
- Returns to the LTC facility
- Developing collaborative partnerships with post hospital providers
Live Question & Answer Session - Have your questions answered by the expert!
About the Speaker
Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, is the president of Patient Safety and Healthcare Consulting and Education company with a focus on medical-legal education especially Joint Commission and the CMS hospital CoPs regulatory compliance. She also lectures on legal, risk management and patient safety issues. She was a director for risk management and patient safety for five years for the Doctors Company.
- She was the past VP of legal services at a community hospital in addition to being the privacy officer and the compliance officer.
- Sue was a medical malpractice defense attorney for ten years. She has 3 nursing degrees in addition to a law degree.
- She is a well-known lecturer and the first one in the country to be a certified professional in CMS.
Program Benefits
Join us for this training to learn about what your hospital must 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. In fact, 2,573 hospitals forfeited $564 million in 2018.
