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too many patients being released too fast, and develop infections soon after their release.
This is a notice to hospitals. Treat your patients for what they came in for. Make sure they aren't leaving with ailments that would bring them back so quickly.
The incompetance of the Obama administration is astounding. Soo, rather than discharging patients that can and should recover at home, hospitals will keep patients longer to avoid fines. Thereby running up costs for the taxpayers. How long before hospitals decline to accept Medicare patients?
The incompetance of the Obama administration is astounding. Soo, rather than discharging patients that can and should recover at home, hospitals will keep patients longer to avoid fines. Thereby running up costs for the taxpayers. How long before hospitals decline to accept Medicare patients?
Are you familiar with the phrase "sicker and quicker"? This describes the situation of patient discharges for a few decades now. Maybe keeping someone a day or two longer can prevent a readmission!
Are you familiar with the phrase "sicker and quicker"? This describes the situation of patient discharges for a few decades now. Maybe keeping someone a day or two longer can prevent a readmission!
It's apparent that these naysayers have never been in a situation where their loved one was admitted for something, and then had to return 3 weeks later due to an issue that was the result of the procedure they came in for.
Again we've got someone sitting in Washinton DC writing rules and effectively making decisions for a doctor and patient that might be several thousand miles away, based on the DC guy's crunching of numbers. Is this really the future of medicine that we want?
Again we've got someone sitting in Washinton DC writing rules and effectively making decisions for a doctor and patient that might be several thousand miles away, based on the DC guy's crunching of numbers. Is this really the future of medicine that we want?
This has been around for decades. Where do you think "sicker and quicker" came from? Medicare, that's where!
As an aside, ever heard of "drive-through deliveries"? Those were common in the 80s until state legislatures passed laws against them.
too many patients being released too fast, and develop infections soon after their release.
This is a notice to hospitals. Treat your patients for what they came in for. Make sure they aren't leaving with ailments that would bring them back so quickly.
Actually the quicker you get out of the hospital, the better off you will tend to be -- you will get fewer dangerous infections in your own home where you're long acquainted with bacterial strains than in a hospital where you are exposed to many unfamiliar strains and terrible pathogens.
Hope the insurance companies will go along with longer stays.
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