Morgan Lopker, PT, DPT Los Robles Regional Medical Center, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (USA). [email protected]

Paula DeLorm, PT, DPT Ohio University, Athens.

Nikki L. Gilroy, PT, DPT Penn Medicine Home Health, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Traci L. Norris, PT, DPT Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Missouri.

Ellen M. Smith, PhD, MPH, RN Utica College, Utica, New York.

Jim Smith, PT, DPT Utica College, Utica, New York.

James Tompkins, PT, DPT Department of Rehabilitation Services, Bayhealth, Dover, Delaware.

Kenneth L. Miller, PT, DPT Department of Physical Therapy, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth.

The authors wish to acknowledge Kenneth L. Miller, who saw the need for a collaboration between content experts from acute care and home health to write a perspective paper with the purpose of informing stake holders of the value and need for physical therapists to be key personnel in discharge planning decisions.

The authors have no conflicts of interest and no source of funding to declare.

Submitted for Publication: December 17, 2021; accepted for publication February 21, 2022; published online April 13, 2022.