Hospice

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 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.

STB Palliative Care is located in the STB_A8 ward of STB hospital. We collect this location as STB Palliative Care.

Grace Hospice is in a separate building from Grace hospital, and is not a ward. We collect this location as Grace Hospice.

HSC_D5 ward provides palliative care when a hospice can't be accessed. It is not necessarily a palliative care location, though.

We are discussing whether we should separate out units like that elsewhere if they exist. Ttenbergen 14:02, 2016 October 12 (CDT)

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