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Useful referral and transition guidance for discharge planners, case managers, and social workers.

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Practical home care planning guide: What a Home Care Agency Needs From Discharge to Staff the First Shift

What a Home Care Agency Needs From Discharge to Staff the First Shift

For discharge planners, case managers, and social workers: the facts that decide whether the first shift at home matches the patient leaving your unit.

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OPA Home Care guide: Authorization and Capability: What a Case Manager Can Check Before Referring

Authorization and Capability: What a Case Manager Can Check Before Referring

For case managers, social workers, and care coordinators: an approved authorization says what a payer will pay for. Five checks show whether the care will happen in the home.

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OPA Home Care guide: The Residual Outcome: What Remains After Each Organization Finishes Its Job

The Residual Outcome: What Remains After Each Organization Finishes Its Job

For health care leaders, case managers, and discharge teams: a way to name the work that no organization owns, and to see who ends up doing it.

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OPA Home Care guide: Why Coordination Costs Land on the Family

Why Coordination Costs Land on the Family

For case managers, discharge planners, and clinicians: where the work of joining one organization’s care to the next comes from, why the family ends up doing it, and five steps that move some of it back.

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