D26 - Discharge Summaries from Skilled Nursing Facilities

RESOLVED, that our Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) educate their members as to CMS Policy¹ regarding SNF’s responsibility to create and timely deliver a comprehensive patient discharge summary to a patient’s outpatient primary care clinician; and be it further

RESOLVED, that PALTmed advance education and clinical tools to facilitate PALTC clinicians to meet the recommended standard for discharge summary communication to primary care clinicians; and be it further 

RESOLVED, PALTmed advocate for inclusion of efficient, high-quality tools that could be used for SNF discharge summary completion and distribution in EHRs.

^{1. F661 483.21(c)(2)}