INDEX

GED Admits & Transfers

Table of Contents:

• Patient Transfers

• Age Requirements

• Transfer Pathways

• St. Vincent’s Admissions

Cross References:

• Admissions

• Consults

• OBGYN Patients

• Psych Patients

Call the CPF using the direct line (6-0928) and have the following information:

• Patient Name

• MRN

• Diagnosis

• Patient Choice of Transfer Location (up to 3 choices)

When contacting the CPF, enter the "GED Admit/Transfer Request" order around the same time. This is an important marker for the decision to admit and tracked for regulatory and reporting purposes.

• 18 and over go to UAB

• 17 and under go to Children's

• Exceptions that go to UAB:

  • Trauma patients age 16 and over

  • Pregnant patients

• Major Trauma: Auto-accepted to UAB.

  • ED-to-ED.

• Code Stroke: Auto-accepted to UAB.

  • May go ED-to-ED, ED-to-IR, or ED-to-inpatient.

• Code MI: Auto-accepted to UAB.

  • If giving lyrics, ED-to-ED.

  • If going to PCI, patient will go straight to cath lab.

• Labor: Auto-accepted to MEU.

• OB under 20 weeks: Goes to UED.

• OB over 20 weeks: Goes to UED if trauma, AMI, or stroke. Otherwise, MEU.

• Psych > 18: Adult Psych.

• Psych 12-18: Adolescent Psych.

• Psych < 12: Children's.

We are preferentially admitting unattached medicine patients (not connected to UAB) to St. Vincent’s. Please offer St. V’s as a first choice to these patients.

• These transfers still need to go through the usual CPF process.

• If admitted through this process, UAB will pay for the ambulance.

• Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with post-op complications on procedures done at UAB

• Transplant patients

• Trauma and Burns

• Atraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

• Acute stroke requiring revascularization

• Acute endocrine emergencies other than DKA (e.g. thyroid storm)

• Acute rheumatologic crisis

• Pediatrics 18 and under

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