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Catalog Number : ngd1976
Title : CMS Proposed Discharge Standards and the IMPACT Act
Speaker : Sue Dill

Duration : 120 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 4-8-2016
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

This webinar will discuss two issues that are of extreme importance to all hospitals including critical access hospitals. It relates to a federal law that has been passed called the IMPACT Act. The second topic to be covered is the CMS hospital proposed changes to the discharge planning standards.

Target Audience

  • Discharge Planners, transitional care nurses, Social Workers, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Compliance Officer, Chief Operation Officer, Chief Medical Officers, Physicians, all nurses with direct patient care, Risk Managers, Regulatory Officer, physician advisor, UR nurses, Joint Commission Coordinator, Nurse Educators, Chief Executive Officer, staff nurses, Nurse Managers, PI Director, Health Information Director, Billing Office Director, Patient Safety Officer, and anyone else involved with the discharge planning. Any person serving on a hospital committee to redesign the discharge process to prevent unnecessary readmissions should also attend.

Webinar Objectives:

  • recall the five things that must be included in the discharge instructions
  • describe the many things that are now required to be included in the transfer form
  • identify that the discharge summary and instructions will need to be sent to the primary care practitioner within 48 hours of discharge
  • discuss that there are five things that must be in the standardized assessment form as required by the federal IMPACT law

Webinar Agenda/Outline:

  • IMPACT Act
    • Federal law
    • History and reason for law
    • Four options for post-acute providers (PAC) which includes home health, SNF, inpatient rehab and LTC hospitals
    • Determining most appropriate setting
    • Requirement to measure five things including functional status and changes, skin integrity and changes, medication reconciliation etc.
    • Standardized assessment and five requirements
    • Use of common standards and definitions
    • Resource use measures
  • Proposed Changes to the CMS Discharge Planning CoPs
    • History
    • Discharge planning worksheet
    • Prevention of hospital readmissions
    • Relationship to IMPACT Act
    • Focus on patient goals and preferences
    • Discharge plan
    • Applies to inpatients, ED, observation and same day surgery patients
    • Identification of discharge needs must be done with 24 hours
    • Qualified person to coordinate discharge needs evaluation
    • Ability to do self-care
    • Transfer form new requirements
    • Redrafting the discharge planning evaluation form to include new requirements
    • 5 requirements of discharge instructions
    • Medication reconciliation
    • Notification of side effects of medications
    • Discharge summary to provider within 48 hours

Contact Hours:

  • Nursing participants: Instruct-online has approved this program for 2.4 contact hours, Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider Number 339.
  • All other participants: Must attend the entire Webinar and complete a Webinar critique to receive a 2 Hour Attendance Certificate for each program.

Completion of offering required prior to awarding certificate.

Refund Policy:

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.