CMS Hospital 2014 - The CMS Hospital Discharge Planning Standards & Discharge Planning Worksheet

Overview: This program will discuss the CMS worksheet on discharge planning. The discharge planning worksheet states that the necessary 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 visit. Is your hospital familiar with the interpretive guidelines and the worksheet information? Come learn what other important things CMS has in their revised worksheet on preventing hospital readmissions!! CMS has recently issued their third revisions to the worksheets.
Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid must be in compliance with the CMS discharge planning guidelines. These standards must be followed for all patients and not just Medicare or Medicaid. CMS requires a number of discharge planning policies and procedures so come learn which ones are required and why. CMS is placing a high priority on improving patient safety and the quality of care. This is consistent with their initiative, the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs, which is aimed to keep patients from getting injured or harmed while in the hospital setting. The goal is to reduce hospitals acquired conditions by 20%. CMS feels that hospitals in full compliance with the hospital CoPs will be in a better position to reduce healthcare acquired conditions.
Areas Covered in the Session:
CMS issues Discharge Planning memo issued May 17, 2013
Transmittal issued July 19, 2013
CMS Deficiency Memo shows this is a problematic area
Introduction
Blue box or advisory boxes
Consolidation of 24 standards into 13 tags
CMS crosswalk to old tags
Discharge planning
Identification of patients in need of discharge planning
Discharge planning evaluation
RN, social worker or qualified person to develop evaluation
Timely evaluation
Discussion of evaluation with patient or individual acting on their behalf
Discharge evaluation must be in the medical record
Discharge plan
Physician request for discharge planning
Implementation of the patient's discharge plan
Reassessment of the discharge plan
Freedom of choice for LTC or home health agencies
Transfer or referral
crosswalk
Who Will Benefit:
Discharge Planners
Transitional Care Nurses
Case Managers
Social Workers
Chief Nursing Officer
Compliance Officer
Chief Operation Officer
Chief Medical Officers
Physicians
Sue Dill Calloway R.N., M.S.N, J.D. is a nurse attorney and President of Patient Safety and Healthcare Consulting and Education. She is the past Chief Learning Officer for the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation. She was the past VP of Legal Services at a community hospital in addition to being the Privacy Officer and the Compliance Officer. She worked for over 8 years as the Director of Risk Management and Health Policy for the Ohio Hospital Association. She was also the immediate past director of hospital patient safety and risk management for The Doctors Insurance Company in Columbus area for five years. She does frequent lectures on legal and risk management issues and writes numerous publications.
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