Coming Home: a calmer plan for leaving the hospital.
Discharge day shouldn't feel like a cliff. Our new Coming Home guide helps families prepare — the questions to ask the care team, the equipment to line up, and how to make a home ready — with the therapy team's own recommendations built in.
The ExpressAgain TeamAugust 2, 20261 min read
Leaving the hospital is one of the hardest turns in a long recovery. After weeks in a bed, a person often comes home needing help they didn't need going in — and families tell us the same thing again and again: they felt unprepared, scrambling for equipment and answers after discharge instead of before it. So we built Coming Home: a calm, practical guide to walk into the discharge conversation ready.
What's inside
- Questions to ask the care team and case manager before discharge — what equipment is being ordered and by whom, whether insurance covers it, home health and therapy, medication changes, and the difference between 'call the team' and 'call 911.'
- An equipment checklist — mobility, the bathroom (commode, shower chair, grab bars), the bedroom, and daily care — so nothing is a last-minute surprise.
- How to ready the home — clear pathways, remove trip hazards, bathroom safety, a comfortable place to spend the day, and getting safely in the door.
- The therapy team's own home recommendations, added by the patient's SLP, PT, or OT and shown right alongside the checklists.
You can tick items off as you go, and print the whole list to hand to the discharge nurse. It's built for the inner circle — the family coordinating the household — and it travels with you from the hospital all the way home.
A quick note
Coming Home is a preparation guide, not medical advice. What a person actually needs is decided by their care team, case manager, and therapists — when in doubt, ask them.
Help someone you love be heard again.
ExpressAgain helps people with communication challenges find the words and say them out loud — and keeps the whole family close.