Case Study Summary Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Case Study Summary Jankowski, J., Seastrum, T., Swidler, R. N., & Shelton, W. (2009). For Lack of a Better Plan: A Framework for Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Challenges in Complex Inpatient Discharge Planning. HEC Forum, 21(4):311-326 Summary of article Complicated inpatient discharge dilemmas often come up whenever patients are medically ready to leave the hospital but they refuse or lack a safe plan for going back to the community or to the post-acute care setting. The purpose of this article is to propose a new theoretical framework for analyzing intricate inpatients hospital discharge dilemmas. The new framework is presented as a novel way of analyzing current discharge problems. The authors aim to offer medical professionals a well thought-out way that they can use to approach obstacles to inpatient discharge.