The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

But in 2012, neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard, identified a unique network of delicate channels (tiny passages alongside blood vessels) inside the brain that collect and discharge brain metabolites and waste materials including amyloid. This system, or ultimate brainwasher as some labeled it, was formally titled the glymphatic system.

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Practice Index

JULY 10, 2025

Problems revealed with electronic discharge The electronic discharge summary often fails to include vital information, placing patients at risk of harm, NHS investigators warn today. This includes discharge summaries failing to reach all the providers, and often not reaching the patients themselves.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Quality Discharge Documentation , both for the CPSA's Standards of Practice quality improvement activity; and, User Settings to Improve Efficiency and Well-Being , for the personal development activity.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 10, 2025

I never got to know their stories, their families, or whether they ever found healing beyond discharge. My patients were often unconscious. My goal was to stabilize and transfer them. That changed when I moved into home hospice and then home health care. This shift taught me that home nursing is not only a career path—it’s a calling.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

Keenly focused on establishing positive therapeutic relationships with patients and their families to achieve effective patient education, resource allocation, informed consent, discharge planning, and optimal clinical outcomes. Proficiency in conversational French and Spanish.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

This issue includes information on: July Optimization (a.k.a.

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Practice Index

MAY 22, 2025

Practices warned about discharge safety Practices should ensure they assess the safety risks of the processes used to care for elderly patients after discharge from hospital. On average, practices receive 1,092 discharge summaries annually, Dr Spencer reports.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advancing these efforts, the BPCI Advanced model introduces a consolidated retrospective payment system that addresses services within a 90-day period following discharge or outpatient procedures. It enhances coordination between providers while motivating them toward comprehensive management strategies focused on complete patient care.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

” Her discharge notes state Difficulty coping with anxiety for past 1-2 weeks. She presented back at the ED the day after her initial discharge with additional hemorrhage concerns. She was discharged with blood pressure medication. She delivered her baby after a 30+ hour labor culminating in postpartum hemorrhage.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JUNE 20, 2025

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Expanded Access to Improved Transition Planning Tools Connect Care provides a set of integrated supports that can help clinicians anticipate and plan for a patient's discharge from hospital. Manual: Transition Planning Manual: Safe Handling Readiness Tip: Discharge Readiness 'Traffic Lights' Demo: Discharge Readiness 'Traffic Lights'

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Dictate any pre-launch admission or transfer notes Launch 9 inpatient facilities are supported for dictation of admission histories, transfer notes, consultation reports and discharge summaries. This is done through the provincial eScription service , with products appearing in the Netcare electronic health record.

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A Young Doctor's Journey

MARCH 10, 2025

I woke up in the PACU and after I could prove that I was able to pee and drink/eat a little, I was essentially discharged. I wrote this blog post to help other women who have been thinking about it: I want you to feel empowered to pursue this option, if it makes sense to you. What is the process actually like?

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 7, 2025

Documentation : Use paper forms or eScription for essential documentation for procedures or intervention results and reports. DOWNTIME (SmartPhrase) to complete the chart element, indicating that content is available elsewhere in the chart.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

They describe a patient who found themselves discharged from a service for failing to attend an appointment, in spite of their efforts to reschedule. Call for action on patients awaiting discharge The Government is under pressure to take action over thousands of patients stuck in hospital and waiting for discharge.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 17, 2025

The ones that don’t make it into social media posts or discharge summaries. These are the moments we celebrate, the ones that make headlines or get highlighted in patient stories. But what about the moments that come after?

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 14, 2025

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here. Note: A camera icon in a post on any of our channels indicates that there is an accompanying screenshot - just click the icon to view.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

Below is a digest of new blog posts across all the Connect Care clinician blog channels in the last week. For more info on the blogs, click here. Note: A camera icon in a post on any of our channels indicates that there is an accompanying screenshot - just click the icon to view.

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Scrubs

MARCH 17, 2023

He was discharged from Auckland City Hospital without conviction after accidentally making one of his coworkers uncomfortable. He was then discharged on the spot. A nurse in New Zealand is out of a job for hugging one of his colleagues too tightly. The incident occurred in February 2021.

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Scrubs

APRIL 14, 2023

Four graduate nursing students, Emily Kilmer, Jillian Shirilla, Kayla Sallinger, and Jillene Saler, at Marquette College of Nursing recently started a clothes drive for discharged patients at five local hospitals. She said the project will soon be added to the school’s curriculum to encourage future students to give back to those in need.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.” In this case, the resident has the right to appeal the involuntary discharge or transfer. 19 CSR 30-82.050(3).

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Imagine if the same virtual nurse who cared for you in the hospital performed a virtual visit after discharge or was your hospital to home nurse and connected with your primary care provider for a warm handoff. It can also reduce the workload at the bedside by having remote nurses do admissions, discharges, and answer questions virtually.

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Scrubs

APRIL 4, 2023

The man was then discharged from the hospital and put in the county jail. Martinek told the officers that handcuffing the patient to the bed was unsafe, so they put him in a four-point restraint instead. But the patient kicked the nurse in the stomach while she was attempting to insert a catheter.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. I saw the same people over and over, but there were loads of services for people experiencing homelessness and addiction issues. There was a disconnect between what we were saying and the person,” she said of her experience.

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Scrubs

MARCH 7, 2023

When Small’s babies were discharged from the hospital several months after she gave birth, Mullen asked if they could exchange numbers, and the two have been a part of each other’s lives ever since. Fortunately, Katrina Mullen was the nurse assigned to look after Small’s children.

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Scrubs

MARCH 9, 2023

Madera Community Hospital is dedicated to continuing services to our patients that are in the hospital and will ensure that they are safely transferred or discharged,” the hospital said in a statement earlier this year.

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Scrubs

MARCH 15, 2023

UC San Diego Health carefully tracks bed availability, patient discharges, planned procedures, supplies and other data to make timely decisions to expedite bed availability.” The organization also noted that it “is taking every measure possible to care for these patients and attend to their comfort and needs.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Integrated Discharge Planning 'Traffic Lights' The Rapid Rounds patient list includes a "Readiness" column with 'traffic light' symbols indicative of a patient's readiness for discharge. Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Manual: Transition Planning

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

Having E-RNs to do discharge planning, do rounds with patients, and ensure patients understand their medication goes a long way to preventing readmission and improving the health of the population we serve.” They can walk down the hall and sense when things are not right.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

JULY 26, 2024

Enhancements to Core Admission and Discharge Navigators Connect Care uses "Navigators" to help prescribers complete complex workflows when key tasks are easy to forget. Core "Admission" and "Discharge" navigators organize review (e.g., discharge summary) steps that must be completed in a specific order.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 27, 2023

Tang also worries that inflation will make it harder to discharge patients from hospitals as temperatures drop. “As

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EvidenceCare

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’re still facing the same types of denials, especially with short stays where payers push back post-discharge.” Be on the lookout for post discharge audits as the Medicare Advantage plans do not have to follow the two-midnight presumption.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

When she was finally discharged, her medical bills totaled nearly half a million dollars. She soon underwent heart bypass surgery. One valve needed to be replaced and one repaired. Overall, she spent a month in the hospital recovering from surgery.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 15, 2024

These changes include 252 new codes, 36 deletions, and 13 revisions. These 2025 ICD-10-CM updates are to be used for discharges and patient encounters from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. These changes will impact medical billing, coding practices, and healthcare administration.

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