Discharging to Home Health from Hospice

You can discharge to and from Home Health and Hospice only if the agency has both lines of business set up in Enterprise Edition. If you have already admitted a patient to hospice and you need to discharge them to home health, follow these steps:

1.    Ensure the Mode field at the very bottom of the screen displays "Hospice" for the line of business.

2.    From the Main Menu, select Patients and click a patient name.

3.    Click the Discharge title bar on the Patient Management window.

4.    Enter the following information:

●     Enter a date in the Discharge date field in the mm/dd/yyyy format, or click    and select the date from the calendar.

●     Enter a Time in the Discharge time field, or click    and use the Hour/Minute fields to enter a time.

●     If the patient died, click the Patient expired check box and refer to Discharging a Patient.

●     Click the arrow beside Location of discharge, and select the appropriate location.

●     Click the arrow beside Discharge Status, and select the appropriate status.

●     Enter any additional notes in the Discharge remarks field.

5.    Click  .

6.    In the Discharge/Copy admission Options dialog box, select one of the following options:

●     Discharge Only - Do Not Copy Admission Info

●     Discharge Only - Copy Admission Info

●     Discharge and Discontinue Orders - Do Not Copy Admission Info

●     Discharge and Discontinue Orders - Copy Admission Info

7.    When the Patient Admission window opens, ensure that the Date below Admission Details is correct. If necessary, enter the correct date in the Date field in the mm/dd/yyyy format, or click    and select the date from the calendar.

8.    Clear the Admit Pending check box.

9.    Click the arrow beside Office, select the appropriate office, and click  . Enterprise Edition displays the discharge in the Patient Admission list.

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