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Read Your New Transfer And Discharge CoP Standard

Published on Thu Jan 19, 2017

You must take these 4 steps when discharging for staff safety reasons. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in the §484.50 Condition of participation: Patient rights, under the Transfer and Discharge standard (d), that HHAs “may only transfer or the patient from the HHA if: (1) The transfer or discharge is necessary for the patient’s welfare because the [...]
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