WAnted to get some feedback on this issue.
We have some patients that just love our facility and they are not necessarily safe to go home but their medicare/insurance days are over or we can't find placement as the SNFs are full. Currently they are essentially allowed to stay in house until a SNF eventually takes them - sometimes they go over their stay by 2 weeks or more. I am horrified by this. Until I became med director this year, the hospital has essentially lost money, not until this year when I essentially doubled their census did they start making a very healthy profit. However I find this insane. How do you all deal with this?
Thank you all
We have some patients that just love our facility and they are not necessarily safe to go home but their medicare/insurance days are over or we can't find placement as the SNFs are full. Currently they are essentially allowed to stay in house until a SNF eventually takes them - sometimes they go over their stay by 2 weeks or more. I am horrified by this. Until I became med director this year, the hospital has essentially lost money, not until this year when I essentially doubled their census did they start making a very healthy profit. However I find this insane. How do you all deal with this?
Thank you all