RE: readmission time frames

[Patricia Whitcomb]

Title: Message

 

 

 

I dc someone return anticipated to the hosp.  They go home from there.  Two months later they come back to me (after another hosp stay).  I would do a readmission since I anticipated there return originally?  I don't know why this confuses me.  But it does.

I don't know about your software but mine won't let me do an admission unless I have discharged someone without anticipate return.  So what I usually do is go ahead & do a permanent discharge when I find out from the hospital that they are not going to be returning to us.  That way, if they return @ a later date, it's not a problem, as it is then a new "admission" if they do come back to us.

 

Pat Whitcomb, RN

MDS Coordinator

Madonna Towers

507-288-3911, Ext. 3050 

 

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