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Post Acute Care - GV Health

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Before you go home, staff will discuss your individual needs in order to make the transition home. The going home plan may include services from a range of programs including Allied Health, Hospital in the Home, District Nursing and/or Post-Acute Care. Patients are discharged from the hospital with Medication prescriptions & information about them (medication advice) A copy of their discharge summary (this is also sent to their GP within 24 hours of the patient's discharge), Follow up appointment(s) information with specialists and GPs, Relevant health information such as wound care precautions, diabetes management and/or other health condition education information. Post Acute Care (PAC) provides funding for short terms discharge support to those clients "at risk" of failing to recuperate successfully after discharge from an acute episode in the public hospital.