Always follow the advice of your care team.
Discharge Planning
Every situation is unique and the length of your inpatient stay will depend upon how you feel and your blood counts. Your care team will keep you updated about your discharge date so you can arrange for cleaning at home and ride on the morning of discharge. You will know your expected discharge date 48-72 hours in advance.
Prior to leaving the hospital, you will meet with care team members to review instructions pertaining to life after a stem cell transplant. Your caregiver should attend these sessions with you (or listen by phone if they cannot be in person). These sessions will be scheduled in the days prior to discharge.
1. Food choices after discharge
The nutritionist will review any food restrictions that apply to you and provide you with recommendations for a healthy, safe diet.
Nutrition Resources:
2. Medications after transplant
The pharmacist, physician assistant, or nurse will review all of your discharge medications. If your discharge prescriptions are not being delivered directly to the hospital, a caregiver will need to pick them up at your pharmacy and bring them to the hospital review.
Medication Resources for Allogeneic Transplant Patients
3. General discharge information
Your nurse will review general post-transplant guidelines, including use of mask and gloves, visitor guidelines and more.
Important Things to Remember:
Please refer to the comprehensive guide - Stem Cell Transplantation: An Information Guide for Patients and Caregivers - for more information.
Prior to leaving the hospital, you will meet with care team members to review instructions pertaining to life after a stem cell transplant. Your caregiver should attend these sessions with you (or listen by phone if they cannot be in person). These sessions will be scheduled in the days prior to discharge.
1. Food choices after discharge
The nutritionist will review any food restrictions that apply to you and provide you with recommendations for a healthy, safe diet.
Nutrition Resources:
- How to Eat Safely After Transplant (video)
- Quick Reference Sheet: Foods/Drinks That Are Safe (PDF)
- Food Preparation and Storage Safety Guidelines (PDF)
- Food Safety in Special Situations (PDF)
2. Medications after transplant
The pharmacist, physician assistant, or nurse will review all of your discharge medications. If your discharge prescriptions are not being delivered directly to the hospital, a caregiver will need to pick them up at your pharmacy and bring them to the hospital review.
Medication Resources for Allogeneic Transplant Patients
- Tacrolimus: How to Take Tacrolimus (video)
- Tacrolimus Quick Guide (PDF)
- Sirolimus: How to Take Sirolimus (video)
- Sirolimus Quick Guide (PDF)
3. General discharge information
Your nurse will review general post-transplant guidelines, including use of mask and gloves, visitor guidelines and more.
Important Things to Remember:
- Our goal is to have you ready for discharge by 11 a.m. on your discharge day. Your ride home should arrive before this time. Please let your caregivers know this well in advance.
- Your central line will be removed prior to your discharge day. Your care team will plan this for you.
- Your medications will be delivered to your room within a few days of your discharge. In order for this to happen, you will need to take care of any co-pays prior to delivery. Please make sure you have a payment option available to you while you are in the hospital (i.e., credit or debit card). In some cases, insurance may require that your medications be filled at a specific pharmacy that may not have a delivery service. These medications will need to be picked up at that pharmacy and brought in to the hospital prior to the discharge medication session.
- We will schedule your first follow up appointment. This will be either at Dana-Farber or at your local oncologist’s office, if appropriate for your care. This is generally within the first week of your discharge.
Please refer to the comprehensive guide - Stem Cell Transplantation: An Information Guide for Patients and Caregivers - for more information.