GH-CAU
GRA CAU - Clinical Assessment Unit
The emergency department decants patients into the CAU 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, the CAU is considered to be an inpatient location
Collection instructions
If a patient is admitted from a GRA-CAU:
- Previous Location: GRA-CAU
- Previous Service: Family Medicine
- Pre-admit Inpatient: GRA-CAU
GRA CAU Details
- Start date: 2017-Oct-16
- Location: 4E (E4)
- Number of beds: 10
- Manager: Kathy Kwiatkowski (see Grace N3 contact information)
Other CAU's
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.
WRHA ER models of care plan article
WRHA Models of ER Care article