Videos Offer Tips to Successfully Transition to Home from Hospital

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Ask Medicare initiative has developed two new videos to help you successfully manage your caree’s transition from the hospital to home setting. The videos present practical and easy-to-follow tips.

• The first video, Tips for Making a Hospital to Home Transition, provides insights and expert guidance on important issues caregivers need to plan for, and manage, when bringing a caree back home from the hospital. It offers advice on maintaining effective dialogues with health care providers, preparing the home for new equipment needs, planning for additional expenses, and more.

• The second video highlights a detailed checklist, Planning for your Discharge Guide, which CMS developed to help you as plan to care for your caree at home.

Visit the Ask Medicare web site at www.medicare.gov/caregivers for additional resources and information.

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