“Utilizing the discharge suite allows opportunities for the Emergency Department and other areas of the hospital to transfer patients to inpatient beds and improve the flow of patients throughou ...

That new perspective includes elevating discharge education, and education in general, to a top priority for nurses. To do this, Hill created the role of patient flow nurse. Going With the Flow ...

Dr. Clay emphasized that patient flow must be a shared responsibility ... UC San Diego Health integrated estimated discharge dates into patient charts about 18 months ago in a discrete, trackable ...

The RARE Campaign — Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively — offers three free tools to review charts and medical records of patients readmitted to the hospital to prevent future readmissions.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will levy fines to 2,610 hospitals in its third year of a program aimed to prevent patients from returning to the hospital within a month of discharge.

One focus area was expediting patient discharge, which affects patient flow in all other areas. By improving discharge, the impact was felt across the organization. After implementing iQueue ...

With the emergence of AI, hospitals have a unique opportunity to integrate these data-driven practices into the daily management of patient flow – from admission to discharge. By leveraging AI ...

Interviews were conducted over the phone within 24 to 48 hours of discharge and responses were graded as correct, partially correct or incorrect by reviewing patient charts. The researchers noted ...

an on-demand AI patient assistant designed to enhance the hospital experience and support after discharge. Opal is intended to function as an always-on agent that provides patients with tools to ...

This session introduces the findings from a Healthwatch survey of patient’s experience of discharge during the pandemic and explore how practice has evolved. This video was first broadcast at Nursing ...

A new discharge lounge has opened at University Hospital in Ayr. The new feature, which opened at the tail end of last month, has two bed spaces and capacity for 15 patients within the open plan ...