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Your healthcare PLAN is
any instructions your doctor gives you you for after-hospital care This includes:
• New medicines & how to take them
• Surgical site care • Limits on diet or physical activity while healing
REMEMBER If you don't understand ASK until
you do!
Your ROLE (how you you take part in your care) is
to:
• FOLLOW all instructions from from your doctor after you you are released from from the hospital • CONTINUE to manage your existing chronic diseases such as as as diabetes heart disease or COPD It could help you avoid hospital readmission!
Use our Discharge Checklist!
Has your doctor given you you new MEDICINES to to take?
• Do you know WHY WHEN & HOW MUCH to to take?
Have you you told your doctor about any OTHER medicines you’re taking?
• Do any of your medicines LOOK alike alike or SOUND alike? Know the di erence!
KNOW B4 YOU GO!
Know B4 You Go!
YOUR PLAN YOUR ROLE YOUR MEDS
