My clear preference is for the patient to go home after getting their hip replacement done. Today we’re talking about doing ambulant joint replacement surgery. But even if the patient has to stay for a day or two in the hospital, the preference is clearly to go home. Everything is set up even before the surgery. The case manager makes sure that there is physical therapy. There is a visiting nurse that is set up before the surgery that comes to the patient’s house to take care of him or her after the surgery. All the medications are called into the pharmacy the day of surgery. Everything is set up before the surgery and most of my patients go home the next day.