Same-day Discharge & Hospital Throughput – Insights from Your Peers 

Speaker:

Donald D. Miller, MD, MBA - Director of Cardiovascular Prevention, Rehabilitation & Inpatient Services, Wellstar-MCG Health 

Stephen J. Fox, BSN - Cardiac Database Coordinator Cath/PCI, Maine Health Maine Medical Center, Portland 

Mary Ngo, RN, CCRN - Quality Improvement Nurse Analyst, UC Davis Medical Center / CathPCI and TVT Registry

Moderator:

Cornelia Anderson, MSN, RN, CPHQ - Director, NCDR Registry Products, American College of Cardiology

Description:
If you are wondering how your hospital can increase same-day discharge rates or improve patient throughput, this session is for you! You’ll hear 3 unique experiences and practical solutions to shortening hospital stays that may benefit an organization’s bottom line while improving patient satisfaction, it’s the ultimate WIN/WIN!  

Learning Objectives:

• ​​Identify one strategy for determining appropriate patients for same-day discharge. ​  
• Discuss the benefits to patients who have same day/timely discharges.​ 
• ​​Identify one organizational benefit to decreased patient length of stays. ​