Don't be Caught Without a Discharge Plan! Successful Post-Acute Referrals and Partnerships - On Demand 2025
Discharge decisions echo long after the patient leaves. In this on-demand session, distinguish skilled nursing facility (SNF) criteria from custodial needs, engage teams in culture change, and design EMR workflows that support and report referrals. Evaluate metrics that justify investment, critique real wins and misses, and leverage post-acute partnerships to reduce delays, optimize capacity, and create more reliable transitions of care.
Availability
On-Demand
Expires on May 06, 2028
Credit Offered
0.75 CME Credit
0.75 ABIM-MOC Point
0.75 Participation Credit
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Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, learners should be able to:
  1. Learn the medical criteria for skilled nursing facilities and distinguish that from custodial care needs.
  2. Develop an understanding of "culture change" tactics to engage the health care team in reducing SNF utilization, decrease discharge delays and insurance denials.
  3. Gain understanding of metrics that justify hospital system investment in post-acute partnerships.
  4. Appreciate ways to leverage post-acute care partnerships to improve care both at the transition from inpatient to post-acute care facility, and during the remainder of a post-acute care stay.
Faculty
  • Aaron Helminski
  • Colleen Poggenburg
  • Rebecca Severe

Faculty Disclosures
The individuals in control of content for this activity have no relevant relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies to disclose unless listed here. Any relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.

 

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MOC Credit Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75  MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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