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Hello again!

In my jurisdiction, we are working on identifying processes to help improve communication between our hospitals, EMS/Transportation companies, and Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in general, but especially when it comes to interfacility patient transfers. We have received feedback from facilities that have patients with Candida auris (C.auris) that they were never notified by the transferring facility and its caused a lot of frustration. Some initiatives we have undertaken include forming special workgroups for our hospital infection preventionists and another separate group for LTCFs to connect and share situational awareness. We are currently, working to identify best practices for interfacility patient transfers to ensure that if patients need to be on transmission-based precautions that its communicated from Facility A-->EMS-->Facility B. I know CDC has some template forms and some facilities use a program called INTERACT. Wanted to see if anyone from the group has any best practices or insights on this that they would like to share.

Bernie 

Good Morning,
We are finding that our facilities are having the same difficulties with information being communicated, especially when it comes to pending labs for MDROs.  Our jurisdiction is working on an interfacility transfer form, using the CDC's form as a template.  We have 2 major hospital systems in our jurisdiction that have a way of flagging infection details in their computer systems, but the facilities do not have access to these electronic records,and rely on telephone communication and written documentation/discharge records.  We are presenting our transfer form to our hospitals and our facilities in the next 3 weeks. 

Hello again!

In my jurisdiction, we are working on identifying processes to help improve communication between our hospitals, EMS/Transportation companies, and Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in general, but especially when it comes to interfacility patient transfers. We have received feedback from facilities that have patients with Candida auris (C.auris) that they were never notified by the transferring facility and its caused a lot of frustration. Some initiatives we have undertaken include forming special workgroups for our hospital infection preventionists and another separate group for LTCFs to connect and share situational awareness. We are currently, working to identify best practices for interfacility patient transfers to ensure that if patients need to be on transmission-based precautions that its communicated from Facility A-->EMS-->Facility B. I know CDC has some template forms and some facilities use a program called INTERACT. Wanted to see if anyone from the group has any best practices or insights on this that they would like to share.

Bernie 

Hello again!

In my jurisdiction, we are working on identifying processes to help improve communication between our hospitals, EMS/Transportation companies, and Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in general, but especially when it comes to interfacility patient transfers. We have received feedback from facilities that have patients with Candida auris (C.auris) that they were never notified by the transferring facility and its caused a lot of frustration. Some initiatives we have undertaken include forming special workgroups for our hospital infection preventionists and another separate group for LTCFs to connect and share situational awareness. We are currently, working to identify best practices for interfacility patient transfers to ensure that if patients need to be on transmission-based precautions that its communicated from Facility A-->EMS-->Facility B. I know CDC has some template forms and some facilities use a program called INTERACT. Wanted to see if anyone from the group has any best practices or insights on this that they would like to share.

Bernie