Discharge Planning
As a patient and family coping with illness, you will need information about your care. Your health care team provides this information throughout your hospital stay. Determining continuing care needs after discharge is an important part of this process. The discharge planning process begins at admission. You will be invited to take an active role in making decisions about your care and your discharge plan. The goal is to make sure that you have a workable plan to follow by the time you are ready to be discharged.
Discharge planning looks at each patient's needs related to:
- Self-care procedures to be done at home
- Outpatient services
- Home health services
- Long-term care organizations
- Transfer to another hospital
- Financial implications of care choices
