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Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:21 am to udtiger
My last 2 hospital stays, my doctor discharged me in the morning and I didn't get out of there until after 5:00 p.m. each time. It's ridiculous.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:39 am to udtiger
Nurses delay discharged until later in their shift so they don’t have to admit another patient before their shifts end
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:40 am to TigerstuckinMS
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Because hospitals set the cutoff at around midday for charging you another day. So, when the doctor sees you on rounds at 9 in the morning and decides to order your discharge, the paperwork delay puts you past the cutoff. That way they can tell you you're getting out today, but still charge you for tomorrow.
It's like checking out late at a hotel.
None of this is remotely true at all and it’s laughable you believe this. Posted from my office in a hospital
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:42 am to the_watcher
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Posted from my office in a hospital
so that's what they're calling the bedpan cleaning room these days
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:45 am to the_watcher
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Posted from my office in a hospital
Heroes work here
And post on TD during work
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:47 am to 777Tiger
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so that's what they're calling the bedpan cleaning room these days
Actually the janitors closet. I fired off that post after putting away the mop. They encourage me to do both the hospital financials and the housekeeping duties
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:48 am to the_watcher
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They encourage me to do both the hospital financials and the housekeeping duties
TYFYS
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:49 am to Ric Flair
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Nurses delay discharged until later in their shift so they don’t have to admit another patient before their shifts end
This also happens as well. But not first thing in the morning. Now if you are being discharged at say 4:30, yeah the nurse is going to squat on that until 7.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:52 am to 777Tiger
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TYFYS
Happy to help. I would explain all of this intricate hospital protocol but I have a tik tok rehearsal to get to on the 7th floor with the respiratory nurses
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:52 am to the_watcher
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They encourage me to do both the hospital financials and the housekeeping duties
You gotta do what you gotta do to come in under budget.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:52 am to fightin tigers
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Just get up and leave. They aren't going to stop you.
Did this once with my father in law.
Discharged but sat around for hours.
He said, let's go.
I said, "there's a protocol"
He said, "frick a fricking protocol"
We walked out.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:53 am to the_watcher
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I have a tik tok rehearsal to get to on the 7th floor with the respiratory nurses
don't forget to post pics when y'all do the selfies showing y'all draws
Posted on 12/30/20 at 10:54 am to Tiger985
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Just get up and leave. They aren't going to stop you.
No they won’t. But unless you sign the final discharge paper work, you are considered AMA. Your entire bill is now out of pocket.
Just sit tight and enjoy the blue bell.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 11:07 am to the_watcher
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None of this is remotely true at all and it’s laughable you believe this. Posted from my office in a hospital
It was mostly tongue-in-cheek. That said, how do you figure out how many days to charge for the room?
Posted on 12/30/20 at 11:14 am to TigerstuckinMS
Most systems use each day, not a specific time during the day. If you leave at 1pm or 9pm it doesn’t matter. CMS also has average length of stay penalties that affect quality dollars as well as to prevent the exact scenario you referenced.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 11:24 am to udtiger
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Doctor advised discharge today at around 8:30 am.
1.5 hrs?
When my grandmother was ill and in the hospital often before she passed
the doctor would often tell her during morning rounds - before 8 am - that she can go home today. Would easily be mid-afternoon before she left. Gotta finalize paperwork, discharge instructions, have someone available to process everything, etc.
Not sure if you heard, but hospitals are pretty busy right now.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 11:33 am to udtiger
Bugs my old man every time he is in the hospital. He'd walk right out of there and tell them to send the papers in the mail if I wasn't there to stop him. 
I understand the reasons above, and convey these to him, but when you are a cranky old cuss, well, you're just a cranky old cuss.
I understand the reasons above, and convey these to him, but when you are a cranky old cuss, well, you're just a cranky old cuss.
This post was edited on 12/30/20 at 11:35 am
Posted on 12/30/20 at 12:09 pm to TheFonz
Besides finalizing paperwork,getting discharge instructions,etc. the nurse still has to care for their other patients,give them their meds and such.You can’t just put them in suspended animation and forget about them until finishing discharging the patient with orders.
That’s one of the things that pushed me into retiring early.I worked in ICU,hospital started policy that patient had to be transferred within 1 hour after receiving a room.Several times I had patient ready to roll out and my other patient would start vomiting or need a bedpan,pull IV or something that required my attention.Then I would be given a ration of shite from administration for not getting my patient with orders transferred within allotted 1 hour.They didn’t have much sympathy for the fact that my other patient needed attention.Was like we were tending to widgets instant of humans.
Years later it still pisses me off.
Promise 1 thing,I will never be a patient at hospital I retired from.
That’s one of the things that pushed me into retiring early.I worked in ICU,hospital started policy that patient had to be transferred within 1 hour after receiving a room.Several times I had patient ready to roll out and my other patient would start vomiting or need a bedpan,pull IV or something that required my attention.Then I would be given a ration of shite from administration for not getting my patient with orders transferred within allotted 1 hour.They didn’t have much sympathy for the fact that my other patient needed attention.Was like we were tending to widgets instant of humans.
Years later it still pisses me off.
Promise 1 thing,I will never be a patient at hospital I retired from.
Posted on 12/30/20 at 12:13 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Day rate is charged at midnight.
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