Going Home
Discharge time is 11 a.m.
Preparing for discharge
Your doctor, nurse and other members of the health-care team will
work with you to plan the care you will need when you are discharged.
Your doctor will decide when you are ready to leave the hospital. If
services such as nursing or therapy, or equipment such as beds or
oxygen are needed at home, the case manager or social worker may be
involved in helping arrange this. They will also help you with
applications to facilities and with financial concerns if you are
unable to return home.
Medications to be taken at home
If you are given prescriptions for medications to be taken at home
you will need to have them filled at a pharmacy of your choice. The
Hospital Pharmacy does not provide take-home medications.
Discharge checklist:
- Arrange early in your stay for someone to pick you up from the
hospital. Remember that discharge time is before 11 a.m. on the day
of discharge.
- Review any written instructions from
your doctor or nurse and be sure to ask any questions you may have
about medications, activity, and diet after discharge.
- If
your doctor has given you a prescription for medications to take at
home be sure you know what the medications are and what they are
for. Arrange to have someone take the prescriptions to the pharmacy
of your choice and to get the medications.
- Make sure you
know when you are to return to see your doctor and how to make
arrangements for any treatments you may need (e.g. rehabilitation
therapy).
- Remove any valuables you may have left in the
hospital safe. Check to see that you have packed everything you
brought with you.
Patient survey
Stanford Health Care is working with National Research Corporation
to gather information about your recent experience at the Hospital. We
hope to learn more about what patients and family members experience
and how we can improve the quality of your care.
You may receive a questionnaire by mail. The questionnaire will take
about fifteen minutes of your time. Your name will not be identified
in any reports. Your participation in this survey will be an enormous
help to us and to future patients. It will help improve our
understanding of the needs of our patients and their families, and how
we can improve the quality of care we provide. You may have already
received a survey from our hospital, but we would appreciate you
taking the time to complete this one as well.
