The hospital shall prepare a properly completed birth certificate on every birth and forward to the office of Vital Statistics. Back to the top Discharge Planning Discharge Planning is the process by which health care professionals collaborate to ensure that on leaving the facility, each patient has a plan of continuing care. The program follows a patient's plan of care and facilitates their progression through different levels of nursing care within the hospital or long term care unit, or admission to a new program of care or rehabilitation. Discharge Planning minimizes delays in patient placement or treatment, promotes appropriate utilization of hospital, long term care unit, agencies, facilities and health care services and provides liaison between the patient and community related resources. All facets of discharge planning seek to restore the patient to a state of independence, or provide for optimum functioning of the patient within the family unit.
Discharge planning begins on admission to the facility.
The purpose of Infection Control is the education, prevention, and control of infectious diseases at Republic County Hospital, and to cooperate with other Health Agencies in the County. The reports or findings are then taken to Medical Staff Meetings by the Physician Chairman for Physician review, comment or action. Back to the top Cardiac Rehabilitation Cardiac Rehabilitation at Republic County Hospital offers individualized exercise programs designed for patients who have had a heart attack, cardiac surgery or who experience stable angina. The purpose of the program is to help individuals with heart disease to return to a productive lifestyle, learn more about heart disease and its management, establish a safe, lifelong individual exercise program and reduce the chances for further cardiac problems.