For many patients and their families, leaving the Rusk Institute can be both an exciting and nervous time. After all, there are many questions and many things to wonder about.
When it comes time to leave the hospital, will everything you need be arranged and managed? Well, that is what discharge planning is; making all the arrangements in advance that are necessary for a patient to leave the hospital safely.
On this page is a list of the common questions patients and their families ask about leaving the hospital. Click on any of the questions, and the answer will be presented by Rusk experts in a series of video clips. Our goal is provide you, and your family with the information you need to better prepare you to work with your health care team as plans are made for you to leave the Rusk Institute.
| 1. Introduction to Discharge Planning |
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| 2. What does the discharge plan consist of? |
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| 3. Why do patients need a discharge plan? |
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| 4. Where will I go after I leave Rusk? |
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| 5. How do you leave the Rusk Institute? |
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| 6. Who makes the actual arrangements for transportation? |
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| 7. What if I need equipment at home, who helps with that? |
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| 8. What about medications? |
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| 9. My doctor told me that I will need to continue rehab at home, who arranges that? |
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| 10. The nurse told me about a discharge notice, but I don’t remember what that is? |
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| 11. If my family or my aide needs to be trained to help assist me when I’m discharged, who takes care of that? |
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| 12. The idea of leaving Rusk sounds scary; whom can I talk with if I feel nervous? |
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| 13. What about diet, does someone help with that? |
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| 14. Someone mentioned something about VNS, what is VNS? |
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| 15. I will need some medical procedures when I am home, who will do them? |
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| 16. The social worker was talking with me about my sister needing to go to a sub-acute facility after leaving Rusk, is there a website that rates them or provides information about them? |
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| 17. The physiatrist told me that after I go home, I will need to follow- up with my regular family doctor, why is that important? |
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| 18. I know that the discharge date for my father is coming closer, why hasn’t anything been done yet? |
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| 19. My mother is going home in a couple of days, what if we have questions after she leaves the hospital? |
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| 20. What actually happens when you are discharged? |
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| 21. Video Summary |
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