Health Services

Tips for a good transition home from hospital or nursing facility:

• Ensure that discharge paperwork has been explained and available to and understood by client
• Ensure that there is sufficient prescription supply until you can be seen by Primary Care Physician (PCP) if refills are needed
• Schedule and keep discharge follow-up appt with PCP
• Ensure that medications have been reconciled (process of making sure that the medications you have in the home match up correctly with what has been ordered by your doctors)
• Ask for print-out of reconciled medication list to keep in wallet/purse
• Ensure that necessary support system is in place (referrals to Home Health, caregiver, Durable Medical Equipment, etc.)
• Become familiar with what signs and symptoms to look out for that would warrant medical attention
• Become familiar with who to call for questions or to report concerns
• Become familiar with where to go for care (PCP appointment, urgent care, ER)
• Update personal health record as health status or medications change