Ask what “discharge” actually includes.
Ask the discharge planner what her insurance covers at home, for how long, and what it does not. Home health is medical and time-limited. Help with meals, bathing, and the everyday is separate, and it is the part families are usually left to arrange themselves.
Get the instructions in writing.
Medications and their times. Wound care. What she can and cannot do for the first weeks. Who to call if something changes. Keep that sheet where anyone helping in the house can read it.
Plan the first three days, not the first month.
The first three days decide whether the week works. Who is there the first night? Who makes lunch on day two? Who drives to the follow-up? Fill those blanks first. The longer schedule can wait.
Decide what you will do yourself.
You do not have to be there for everything. Choose the parts that matter most to you and let someone else carry the rest. A few hours of help at the right time often keeps a hard week from becoming a crisis.
At Pink Glove, care can start the week she comes home.
Tell us the discharge date and what the hospital recommended. We will talk through the practical help we can provide, confirm the schedule and costs, and introduce a caregiver before the first visit whenever the timing allows.