Doctors and nurses treat a COVID-19 patient in a makeshift intensive care wing at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance. The deluge of patients has made the work of hospital discharge planners more ...

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), patients have the right to select their home health provider. This is known as "patient choice." Your doctor or hospital discharge ...

is your neighborhood reporter for North Beach, Downtown Corpus Christi and the Bay Area. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Nueces County Jail has implemented a new program for inmates that offers a plan to ...

Can artificial intelligence improve discharge planning? Has AI finally found a role in day-to-day healthcare? The answer is a tentative maybe. "Timely patient discharge requires a coordinated effort ...

Bringing Our Community Home, the organization coordinating the 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in Santa Barbara County, has announced the launch of the Homeless Inmate Jail Discharge Planning ...

The Santa Barbara County Jail discharge planner, who has worked with mentally hill and homeless inmates since 2009, received a prestigious award last week in Sacramento, according to the Sheriff’s ...

The patient needed a ventilator or she would die. The hospital wanted to discharge her, but there was no place she could go. As the surge of coronavirus infections created a terrifying shortage of ...