Discharge Planning

Effective Discharge Begins at Admission for Hospital Case Management

An excellent hospital stay can quickly turn into a disaster with poorly coordinated discharge planning. For example, a patient may have to wait through the weekend because an important consult was not completed on a Friday. Patient satisfaction and hospital case management is therefore effected by poor discharge processes. Hospital case management requires comprehensive visibility and workflow coordination for effective facilitation of day of discharge tasks.

The StatCom patient flow logistics and tracking software helps you take control of your hospital case management challenges:

• Confirming the attending physician's intent for patient discharge
• Synchronizing the numerous discharge tasks necessary to ensure timely and effective patient discharges
• Providing clarity as to patient discharge bottlenecks and opportunities
• Providing detailed patient discharge status information by unit for the "bed huddle"
• Giving case managers the information and workflow tools necessary to expedite the patient discharge process

StatCom enables hospital case management to reduce patient LOS by anticipating discharges and initiating the patient discharge process earlier. Prioritized discharge tasks such as completing the patient's final education, mobility training, patient discharge status summaries, and home transportation are all queued up by role. Hospital case management and patient discharge into extended care facilities can also be expedited.

StatCom provides the following day of discharge capabilities, complementing your existing hospital case management systems and extending your capabilities:

• Maps the patient's estimated day of discharge from their presenting condition. 
• Any changes in condition are easily updated by CM or nursing to maintain the accuracy of the day of discharge estimation.
• Providers are alerted regarding pending day of patient discharge status, so that the discharge planning can be easily initiated in a coordinated fashion.
• StatCom provides discharge task queues and alerts, and escalations by role and by area to facilitate an effective discharge process.
• Provides real-time dashboard reporting as to discharge turnaround by unit and area.