Crisis Kit · 01 · Hospital Discharge
The 48 hours that decide
the next year of care.
A 30-page playbook, 25-question worksheet, decision flowchart, payment quick-reference, and a full set of templates. Written for adult children walking into a hospital discharge meeting without a script.
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Crisis Kit · 01
Hospital
Discharge
Crisis Kit
This kit is for you if
- Your parent is in the hospital right now, or you can feel a hospitalization coming.
- You are the family lead — the one the hospital calls, the one siblings defer to (or argue with).
- Nobody has handed you a written plan, and the discharge timeline is unclear.
- You want to understand the system before you sign anything.
- You'd rather pay $15 for organized answers than spend 20 hours stitching together Reddit threads at 2am.
This kit is NOT for you if
- You want medical advice (we don't give it; talk to the doctor).
- You want legal advice on Medicaid asset transfers (talk to an elder-law attorney).
- You want a specific facility recommendation (we won't make one without disclosing every relationship).
- You are looking for inspirational caregiver content. This is a tactical playbook, not a memoir.
- Your situation is fully stable and well-funded. You don't need a crisis kit if there's no crisis.
What's inside
Nine files. Roughly 22,000 words. Built to use under pressure.
01
The Main Guide (30 pages)
The core playbook. Why the discharge moment matters more than diagnosis day. The four paths from the hospital bed. The five payer channels. The first 72 hours at home. The 12 most expensive mistakes families make.
02
Discharge Planner Worksheet
25 questions, sectioned A-E. Print, bring to the bedside meeting, take notes. Includes red-flag triggers for when to file a Medicare appeal.
03
Decision Flowchart
Home alone? Home with care? Skilled nursing rehab? Assisted living? A visual decision tree that maps function + cognition + environment to the right path — and tells you when to push back on the hospital's recommendation.
04
Payment Quick-Reference
Who pays for what in the first 100 days, across Medicare, Medicaid, private pay, LTC insurance, and VA. The 3-midnight rule. The homebound test. Prior auth playbook. VA Aid & Attendance eligibility table.
05
Day 1–30 Template
Week-by-week tasks for the first month at home. Day 1 setup, Day 2 functional assessment, Week 2 patterns-emerge, Week 4 plan-beyond-30 reflection.
06
Spreadsheet Templates
Three pre-built CSVs: medication tracker, contact directory (every provider + insurance + family role), appointment log.
07
Email Template Pack
Three ready-to-customize templates: medical team coordination email, monthly family update, employer FMLA / flexible-arrangement request.
08
Free updates
Benefits change. Rules change. Buyers get every revision, automatically. (Last updated: May 2026.)
The honest sales pitch
What $15 actually buys you.
Most of what's in the kit is technically available for free, scattered across CMS.gov, VA.gov, state Medicaid sites, Reddit threads, and hundred-page eldercare PDFs.
Finding it, stitching it together, and figuring out what applies to your specific situation took about 80 hours when we first did it. Most families do this at 2am, exhausted, with a discharge date 36 hours away.
The kit compresses those 80 hours into about 90 minutes of reading and a small set of printable worksheets. That's what $15 buys.
If it doesn't save you at least one hour of confusion or one bad decision, email us and we'll refund you. Quietly. No friction.
Walk into the discharge meeting with a script.
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