Please, please, please when discharging a patient, ask the parents for the best contact number and write that number on the discharge paperwork. We are less than 70% compliant with this!!! We are trying to improve our patient satisfaction and offer a follow up phone call to the families to give them the opportunity to ask questions. We now have a centralized call center that does the discharge phone calls for us. It is imperitive that we put the correct number so the families have been contacted. Also please make a note if the contact is a FOSTER Parent. They have had situations where the biolgical family was called post discharge instead of the foster parent (you can image the joy of that conversation!).
Thanks for your help! You guys do great work and I want you to be able to be recognized for it.
Melinda
carrie smith
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