{"id":30993,"date":"2017-04-29T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/30993\/"},"modified":"2017-04-29T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:30:43","slug":"hospitals-now-expected-to-try-to-identify-patients-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/30993","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals now expected to try to identify patients\u2019 caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p><p>From the Post-Gazette:<\/p>\n<p>Hospital patients in Pennsylvania should now be prepared for a nurse to ask one more question beyond how they\u2019re feeling, what medications they\u2019re taking and other traditional inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Patients visited initially in their rooms are being asked for the name and phone number of a person they would rely on as an informal caregiver after being discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Under a new state law that took effect Thursday, hospitals are to record the names of caregivers, contact them prior to a patient\u2019s discharge and provide them the same information or training given to patients for handling any medical needs expected after getting home.<\/p><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23721\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23721&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><p>From the Post-Gazette:<\/p>\n<p>Hospital patients in Pennsylvania should now be prepared for a nurse to ask one more question beyond how they\u2019re feeling, what medications they\u2019re taking and other traditional inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Patients visited initially in their rooms are being asked for the name and phone number of a person they would rely on as an informal caregiver after being discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Under a new state law that took effect Thursday, hospitals are to record the names of caregivers, contact them prior to a patient\u2019s discharge and provide them the same information or training given to patients for handling any medical needs expected after getting home.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23721\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23721&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}