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Ohio Valley Medical Center
2000 Eoff Street Wheeling, WV 26003
304-234-0123

Discharge
Your attending doctor is responsible for determining your discharge date. If you choose to leave without this doctor's consent, we will ask that you sign a statement acknowledging you are leaving against medical advice and accepting full responsibility for this act.

We start planning for the day you will leave the hospital on the day you are admitted! Even so, the actual day you are ready to leave, several things have to take place and that often takes time. The physician who admitted you determines when you are ready to be released from the hospital; if you have had other physicians who have seen you during this stay, it may be necessary for them to see you on the day of discharge. When it is decided you may be released, the physician writes an order telling the nurses that you will be leaving. The nurses will be busy making the arrangements for you to leave, including:

getting discharge information from your doctor(s) for you such as prescriptions, diet, activity, and making arrangements for home health visits, physical therapy, special equipment;
reviewing discharge instructions for you and your family;
completing required paperwork.

We know you will be eager to leave and our goal is to assist you as quickly and as efficiently as possible. We ask for your understanding that the discharge process takes time. Please check with your nurse to determine the approximate time when all the preparations for your discharge will be complete.

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