Transitional Care

Transitional Care is provided in Transition Care Units (TCU) and River Ridge Transition Care Environment (TCE).

A transitional care facility is a temporary place for patients that are waiting for placement into an alternate care setting.

Other medical care and rehabilitation is provided before going home, to a nursing home or to other more permanent placement. This includes Geriatric Rehab.

In the WRHA setting TCUs usually have a defined period of time for the resident's stay to determine most appropriate final discharge destination.

If a patient's discharge to a TCU was delayed by more than a day then also code Awaiting/delayed transfer to lower acuity site in Winnipeg other than home or LTC/PCH.

Transitional Care Units

Transition Care in hospital. These are inpatients.

Units available in S dispo table

See #Legacy Units for legacy units.

Misericordia - Transitional care

• last known use as of 2022-04: 2022-03-31

VIC - Transitional care

• Location: VIC_N4 and VIC N4C
• Start Date: 2017-Oct-10
• last known use as of 2022-04: 2021-01-14

Infrequent use

These are not used very frequently (see query z_s_dispo_lastUsed) but as of 2022-04 they still exist.

Data Use

• This is not part of the regular quarter reports. However, maybe asked in specific request where the interest is the location the patient went after discharged.

#Transitional Care Units concept is encoded S dispo.loc_type.

Legacy Locations

• GRA - no longer in existence as of October 2017 - use to be W4; disappeared when CAU came
• HSC - no longer existence as of November 2017
• STB
  • Location: A6S; used to be 4E
  • Start Date: 2017-Oct-3
  • Number of beds: 18 is the goal

• Transitional Care Environments (non-hospital setting, these are not inpatients)
  • River Ridge Transition Care Environment: 2017-Oct-02 - 2019-Apr-28