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Facilitate discharge planning to achieve 100 percent compliance with patient education prior to discharge (discharge planning).

Facilitate discharge planning to achieve 100 percent compliance with patient education prior to discharge (discharge planning).

Facilitate discharge planning to achieve 100 percent compliance with patient education prior to discharge (discharge planning).

The hospital leadership established these objectives for the clinic services:

· Evaluate and maximize proper medication therapy.

· Conduct regular diet, exercise, and stress management classes for the patients.

· Monitor physiological indicators for the patients (lab work, weights, vital signs, ECGs).

· Provide a case management system for patients in the program post-discharge.

The overall goals for the heart failure clinic are to:

· Enroll greater than 90 percent of the patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of HF prior to discharge.

· Facilitate discharge planning to achieve 100 percent compliance with patient education prior to discharge (discharge planning).

· Decrease readmission rates in this population by 5 percent over the next year.

The leadership team has asked you to provide them with an evidence-based plan for one of the components of the clinic. You may use any combination of documents (for example, a spreadsheet or a table) in addition to explanatory information to convey information clearly and succinctly.