Level of care hierarchy

We use the concept of a level of care hierarchy in the context of Transfer Delays. See Transfer Delay to understand how it is used. Level of care applies to a patient's combination of Boarding Loc item and comment entry (which together define a physical location). Which location has which level of care is stored in the s_level_of_care table.

Levels of Care

The actual levels of care are:

• WRHA ICU, same level of care includes: MICU, SICU, CICU, ACCU, CCU
• Other MB RHA ICU or Other Province ICU
• WRHA IICU
• WRHA HOB ward
• WRHA regular ward (CTU or NTU)
• WRHA lower acuity ward in acute care hospital, whatever flavour of the month word they use for this
• ward outside WRHA
• PCH or home
• morgue (e.g. in case of Brain death)