Hospice: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:22, 29 October 2025

Hospices are palliative/end-of-life care facilities, relevant to the program as admit/discharge locations

If a patient is admitted from (ie Previous Location) or discharged to (ie Dispo) a hospice, code as the appropriate entry from the s_dispo table, and use "Chronic Health Facility" as Pre acute living situation.

If the palliative care location is a ward the record is treated as a continuous admission

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Grace Hospice is in a separate building from Grace hospital, and is not a ward. We collect this location as Grace Hospice.
STB Palliative Care is located in the STB_A8 ward of STB hospital. We track this as a "ward" in s_dispo table S dispo.loc type because, while it provides some services a hospice would, it is actually a proper ward.
Riverview Chronic Health Facility palliative ward - use Riverview

Related articles:
GRA Medicine Collection Guide (← links) Dispo field (← links) CCMDB.mdb Change Log 2015 (← links) Chronic Health Facility (← links) Portal related pages with questions (← links) S dispo.loc type (← links) Questions (← links) Deceased patients (← links) Database Manager (← links)

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 Hospices are palliative/end-of-life care facilities, relevant to the program as admit/discharge locations
-If a patient is admitted from (ie [[Previous Location]]) or discharged to (ie [[Dispo]]) a hospice, code as the appropriate entry from the [[s_dispo table]].
+If a patient is admitted from (ie [[Previous Location]]) or discharged to (ie [[Dispo]]) a hospice, code as the appropriate entry from the [[s_dispo table]], and use "[[Chronic Health Facility]]" as [[Pre acute living situation]].
-If the palliative care location is a ward it is treated as a '''[[continuous admission]]''' and can also be used as a [[Pre-admit Inpatient Institution field]].
+If the palliative care location is a ward the record is treated as a '''[[continuous admission]]'''
 '''Includes'''