GH-CAU

CAU - Clinical Assessment Unit

This unit decants emergency medicine patient who are are waiting on acquisition of resources (diagnostics and consults) for 24 hrs or more before they are safely returned to community.

At the Grace this is considered to be an inpatient location.

Collection instructions

If a patient is admitted from a GRA-CAU:

• Previous Location GRA-CAU
• Previous Service as Family Medicine
• Pre-admit Inpatient: GRA-CAU

Note

• I was just speaking with Marusia and she told me that the CAU patients here at the Grace are being treated as admitted patients rather than ER patients. They are being admitted currently to 4 East under Family Medicine. The thinking was that they have been dealt with by ER but not deemed ready for discharge but they do not want them being seen as ER patients.

EMIP

In Sept 2017 Con investigated whether any patients in the CAU are ever EMIPs; she found that there should not be. If any collector comes across an EMIP from one of these locations, please update this. Template:Discussion

• need to resolve EMIP and figure out where that info will live. Ttenbergen 11:30, 2016 December 29 (CST)
• If a patient is still considered an ER patient in a CAU, they can potentially be an EMIP if they get accepted by internal medicine but subsequently are discharged or sent to another hospital. At STB our CAU contains inpatients mostly under family medicine but can be under internal medicine (they are not under the ER physician). If the CAU is considered part of ER then I guess patients that are accepted by internal medicine and go out elsewhere could be EMIP's. It depends how you view the area. Is the CAU considered the same as ER or not? Management will have to determine how they want this done. Currently no one at STB collects data at all on the patients in the CAU. --LKolesar 11:49, 2017 October 27 (CDT)

GRA CAU Details

• Start date: 2017-Oct-16
• Location: 4E (E4)
• Number of beds: 10
• Manager: Kathy Kwiatkowski (see Grace N3 contact information)

WRHA ER models of care plan article

WRHA Models of ER Care article