Discharge Planning & Transitions for Patients With Complex Care Needs

Course overview

Home health and hospice clinicians, case managers, and discharge planners face many challenges when transitioning patients with complex care needs to and from home care or hospice. This course defines the steps involved in the development of a discharge plan, identifies potential barriers to an effective implementation, offers strategies for managing those barriers, and reviews measures of success and outcome achievement related to effective discharge planning. In closing, a case study is used to operationalize, highlight, and reinforce the concepts discussed in the course.