Background: Late discharges are a known barrier to patient flow.  Our project was to identify barriers to early discharges and develop processes to increase early discharges from the inpatient medicine teams.   Purpose:  “Daily afternoon multidisciplinary team huddles will increase the % of discharge orders before 10am by 10% on the medicine teams by June 2015” Description: We initially analyzed reasons [...]

Background: Readmissions are costly to the healthcare system have been associated with low patient satisfaction scores, longer length of stay, and higher mortality. Identifying and addressing patient needs at the time of transitioning care from the inpatient to outpatient setting has the potential to reduce readmission rates. The purpose of our project was to develop [...]