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Abstract Number: 110
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Situated in coastal Florida, the four hospitals/1,000 beds in the Health First Integrated delivery network are located right in hurricane alley. Our hospitalist program had to plan for, communicate, and execute our hurricane staffing and disaster plan twice in one year. Purpose: Lessons learned from the implementation of our Hospitalist staffing and disaster plan […]
Abstract Number: 176
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Inconsistent transitions of care from the inpatient to outpatient setting may lead to preventable readmissions. Critical processes completed at discharge shown to reduce readmissions at our institution include admission and discharge medication reconciliation, clinically appropriate follow-up scheduled prior to discharge, and timely completion of a discharge summary within 48 hours of discharge (the “Core […]
Abstract Number: 200
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: High risk patients undergoing elective surgery are at increased risk of life-threatening complications. Also, most are under anesthesia, lacking capacity for at least that time. Despite this they often lack advance directives (ADs) or do not have them accessible in their medical records. Methods: We did a retrospective chart review of 231 patients seen […]
Abstract Number: 256
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Late discharges are associated with hospital overcrowding, delayed inter-unit patient transfers, lower patient satisfaction scores and longer length of stay. At our hospital, there has been a consistent discordance between the teaching and non-teaching hospitalist services in the percentages of patients discharged before 11 am, which was 8.4% (teaching teams) versus 36.4% (non-teaching teams) […]
Abstract Number: 299
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Reducing length of stay to improve access, minimize hospital-associated morbidity, and reduce cost is a top priority at many hospitals. Information about barriers and delays impacting discharge (i.e., arranging subacute nursing facility placement, setting up a new dialysis seat, receiving consult recommendations for discharge) is rarely documented and often obtained anecdotally or qualitatively. This […]