Discharge Planning for Home Health Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach / Edition 1

by Barbara Stover Gingerich, Deborah Anne Ondeck

Overview

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to assessing the needs of patients and establishing a coordinated hospital-to-home discharge plan. The referral format and assessment tools provide the user with an organized and systematic approach for the transition of the patient through the continuum of care. This comprehensive resource is based on current reimbursement and regulatory issues and contains over 150 tools for easy application to a broad spectrum of health care settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834205727
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	04/07/1994
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	244
Sales rank:	745,103
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction * Overview * The Hospital Discharge Plan * The Patient’ s Perspective * The Home Care Coordination Perspective * The Social Work Perspective * The Nursing Perspective * Professional Collaboration * External Linkages * The Effects of Reimbursement: Today and Tomorrow * Integration with Alternative Health Care Settings * Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

A combination of regulatory issues seeking quality cost-effective care, the increased acuity of discharged patients, and home care's readiness to meet the growing need for trained health professionals within the community have led to the need for enhancement of the home care coordination link in the discharge planning process. This manual provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to organizational discharge planning in 11 chapters: overview; the hospital discharge plan; the patient's perspective; the home care coordination perspective; the social work perspective; the nursing perspective; professional collaboration; external linkages; the effects of reimbursement--today and tomorrow; integration with alternative health care settings; and conclusions. A dozen appendices provide additional information. Loose-leaf in a three-ring binder. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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