HSC CAU

HSC CAU - Clinical Assessment Unit

This unit is part of the emergency medicine department. It is a location where patients are harboured 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 HSC, this is currently not considered to be an inpatient location.

• HSC is treating it as an extension of the ER.
  • plans to change model of care sometimes in 2018.

Collection instructions

If a patient is admitted from a HSC-CAU: (further changes in progress)

• Previous Location HSC-CAU
• Previous Service Emergency Medicine--(as confirmed by Con and Lou)Sept 2017.
• Pre-admit Inpatient: not applicable

HSC CAU Details

• Start date: 2014-Nov-17 (was previous called Clinical Assessment Unit).--Llemoine 12:51, 2017 October 31 (CDT)
• Name change to CAU: 2017-Oct-03
• Location: GH7
  • plans to move to GB2 DATE"?- (when current GB2 (Addictions, moves to RR2) coming spring 2018. No specific date yet, please fill in when available.
• Number of beds: 10
  • 2 flex beds (over census)in spring 2018.
• Manager: Template:Discussion

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)

WRHA ER models of care plan article

WRHA Models of ER Care article