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Your healthcare PLAN is
any instructions your doctor gives 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 take part in your care) is to:
• FOLLOW all instructions from your doctor after you are released from the hospital.
• CONTINUE to manage your existing chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease or COPD.
It could help you avoid hospital readmission!
Use our Discharge Checklist!
Has your doctor given you new MEDICINES to take?
• Do you know WHY, WHEN & HOW MUCH to take?
Have you told your doctor about any OTHER medicines you’re taking?
• Do any of your medicines LOOK alike or SOUND alike? Know the di erence!
KNOW B4 YOU GO!
Know B4 You Go!
YOUR PLAN
YOUR ROLE
YOUR MEDS