Plan the support needed for returning home.

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Address: Woodbury, MN, 55125, US
Telephone: (612) 409-4351

Use this to organize a conversation with the discharge team and with any home care provider. It helps clarify who is responsible for what, at the point where that is easiest to get wrong and most expensive to discover late.

This is a planning aid, not clinical advice. It does not replace the discharge instructions or anything a clinician tells you about the person returning home. Follow the discharge team's instructions, and call 911 in an emergency.

Daily routines

Which activities will need help when the person gets home?
Who will assist with bathing, dressing, meals and toileting?
What mobility assistance is recommended, and how many people are needed?
Which tasks will family provide, and which require an agreed service arrangement?

Nursing and other clinical services

Have any nursing tasks been recommended?
Which provider has agreed to perform them?
Are the required instructions, orders and supplies in place?
Who should receive questions about medications or treatment instructions?
Are therapy or other clinical visits arranged separately?

The home and equipment

Can the person reach the areas they need for daily life?
Is the recommended equipment there before it is needed?
Who will explain how the equipment is used?
Has the home care provider reviewed the tasks that involve it?

The first visits

Has the home care provider confirmed acceptance and the start date?
What exact hours and tasks are covered?
Who will be present for the first visit?
What is the plan for the hours that are not covered?

Contacts and follow-up

Where are the discharge instructions and the provider contact details kept?
Which symptoms or concerns require action under those instructions?
Who handles routine questions, and whom do you call for a time-sensitive one?
Have the follow-up appointments been arranged?
Who has permission to receive information and help coordinate care?

Keep one clear plan

Write down the provider responsible for each task and the date it actually begins. Ask about any gap before the discharge arrangements start depending on support that has not been confirmed.

A plan with one owner per task survives a bad week. A plan where two people each assumed the other had it does not.

Talk it through before the discharge date

Tell us the care location, the planned return-home date and the general needs, and we will review fit and what we currently have available.

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