Understanding the Discharge Process - St. Elizabeth Healthcare

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Understanding the Discharge Process - St. Elizabeth Healthcare
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Yep! I know the hospital discharge process so well! I've been through it, more times than I could count. I have a trach, and I'm on a ventilator, and the last hospital stay in ICU in Lexington KY after a series of seizures, I was so ready to go home! I remember that night sitting there waiting for my antibiotics to finish, and those have to go in over three hours, but I just kept thinking how badly I wanted to go home! That hospital stay was a hard one. I don't remember quite a bit of it, because I was heavily sedated on Propofol, but I remember when I woke up, I was confused, and was not happy that I couldn't remember so much of it. I was not myself at all! I was told that I was trying to pull out the IVs and stuff, and pulled the pilot balloon off of my trach, which is a BIG NO NO!!! I was VERY confused! Finally, when we got home about midnight on the 3rd, I was VERY VERY HAPPY!

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My person was dc from a hospital and had no care in place aside from family who live in other city. He couldn’t cook … but they prescribed a purée diet….car gone can’t drive….can’t even administer his own medication. His spouse had dementia and under his care…can’t care for her. To this day I don’t know how that happened. His daughter did it all. So. Not really true that home care will be provided. Not true.

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It’s the hospital goal to push people out as fast as possible. It’s usually premature and results in an unsafe discharge and high rate of rapid re-hospitalizations.

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