What are you doing now to discharge patients sooner rather than later?’”AdvertisementHospital discharge planners must juggle family preferences, healthcare plans and intake restrictions at nursing homes while trying to free up beds. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)Every day is like a jigsaw puzzle, with discharge planners trying to figure out where patients fit. Chief Executive Carmela Coyle said that hospitals are struggling to discharge patients to skilled nursing facilities, home health care and other settings outside the hospitals. She cited some counties that passed bans prohibiting skilled nursing facilities from accepting hospital patients because of concern about COVID-19’s spread. “We have ambulances continuing to flow into hospitals, dropping patients off in acute care need.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 10, 2021 14:03 UTC