That, in turn, reduced by half the number of medicines tossed out because patients were discharged.
Patients are discharged from hospital and can be left isolated with no social care support.
The report states that each month around 3, 500 patients are discharged from surgery and medical divisions at both hospitals.
"Every place is different and faces different challenges in terms of improving care after patients are discharged from the hospital, " Goodman said.
The hospitals are in an uproar over this, of course, because they could be held accountable for treatment results for up to three months after patients are discharged.
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Doctors at one hospital reported patients were being discharged early to go home to protect their belongings.
There was also a "shortfall of places for hospital patients to be discharged to" in the community, she said.
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Many are putting transition programs in place often using care managers, social workers, or nurses to assist patients who are discharged to home.
The shortage at the 612-bed facility had been made worse by a "shortfall of places for hospital patients to be discharged to" in the community, he said.
Once residents are ready to go back home or transfer to another facility, federal law also requires that the homes write special plans to make sure patients are safely discharged.
Mrs Hutt also urged for patients to be discharged more quickly and called on health trusts to set up prioritisation systems in the five health areas with the longest waiting times.
In September there were 67 patients waiting to be discharged, in August there were 62 and there were 65 in June.
The county's NHS hospital trust has an aim of 30 or fewer medically fit patients waiting to be discharged at the end of each month.
It can involve everything running outpatient appointments and minor surgery in the community to improving the support and rehabilitation available to patients when they are discharged from hospital.
Though the initial surveillance of the California cases indicates that most healthy patients recovered and were discharged after short hospital stays, those with other medical conditions had greater complications.
This group of sales professionals, from a clinical or nursing background, needed better ways to collaborate with colleagues and with hospital medical staff to offer the right services to patients about to be discharged and in need of rehabilitation services.
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Health officials are to look into figures suggesting many hospital patients in England are being discharged in the middle of the night.
"Due to the demands on PICU capacity, patients are more likely to be discharged from PICU at an earlier post-operative phase, " the report said.
From April next year the government plans to impose fines, or "reimbursement charges", on authorities that cannot provide care for patients once they are ready to be discharged.
It followed the BBC revealing that 17 children were among 118 patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital who have not been discharged due to a lack of funding.
"In general we have 50 to 60 patients in both hospitals who are fit to be discharged from the hospital and are waiting some aspect of social care, " she said.
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Indeed, about half of the patients who were rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged had no bill for an outpatient physician visit between the time of discharge and rehospitalization.
He said two patients that had been "seriously unwell" had now been discharged, which was "really encouraging" and that the "treatment was working very well".
Bosses at the infirmary announced the hospital was full to capacity, with 40 beds "blocked" by patients who were well enough to leave but could not be discharged because of delays in finding nursing home places for them.
These patients are often waiting for others on the wards to be released after treatment or discharged by busy doctors or nurses.
Such patients would either be effectively treated with IV antibiotics in observation for 24 hours and discharged when their condition improved, as cellulitis often does with 24 hours of antibiotic treatment, or would be given one dose of IV antibiotics in the emergency room and sent home with antibiotics by mouth and a follow up appointment soon after the ER visit.
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Of those six, two patients remained in critical condition, three have been upgraded to good condition and one was discharged Tuesday afternoon, hospital spokeswoman Alex Rodriguez said.
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