Transitional Care

Transitional Care is provided in Transition Care Units (TCU)s.

A transitional care facility is a temporary place for patients that are waiting for placement into an alternate care setting.

Other medical care and rehabilitation is provided before going home, to a nursing home or to other more permanent placement. This includes Geriatric Rehab.

In the WRHA setting TCUs usually have a defined period of time for the resident's stay to determine most appropriate final discharge destination.

Units available in S dispo table

See #Legacy Units for legacy units.

Misericordia - Transitional care

• Still being collected as of 2025-06-05

Data Use

• This is not part of the regular quarter reports. However, maybe asked in specific request where the interest is the location the patient went after discharged.

#Transitional Care Units concept is encoded S dispo.loc_type.

Legacy Locations

• GRA - no longer in existence as of October 2017 - use to be W4; disappeared when CAU came
• HSC - no longer existence as of November 2017
• STB
  • Location: A6S; used to be 4E
  • Start Date: 2017-Oct-3
  • No longer in existence-?end date
• VIC - Transitional care
  • Location: VIC_N4
  • 2017-Oct-10 to 2025-06-05: 2024-03-28

• Transitional Care Environments (non-hospital setting, these are not inpatients)
  • River Ridge Transition Care Environment: 2017-Oct-02 - 2019-Apr-28

• Grace Nursing Home Ward was a related concept

• HSC Lennox Bell and Alternative Integrated Accommodation (AIA) are related concepts operating as of 2025-06