For Kaiser, I got a schedule to test blood one time, a week after discharge (*). Was supposed to be done by in-home nurse visits, and there were about 4 of them (maybe about 6 were authorized). The nurses were quite good. One of them took off the stitches, they were checking on the progress, etc. But the provider was outsourced (I live outside their usual coverage area). And the initial visit scheduling was not going well. The scheduler didn't seem to care about the "1 week after" timeline. So my wife just drove me to the regular lab clinic instead.
(*) There was also a visit with PCP scheduled a month later, and another draw was done at that time. And cardiologist's appointment as well - they were really covering all the bases.
Yes. Got the hospital contact information upon the discharge (as well as a handout, with a table of blood pressure measurements, temperature, walking times to fill in daily). It was quite useful - there was somebody on call 24/7 when I had questions.
