{"id":702,"date":"2024-04-08T21:57:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=702"},"modified":"2024-04-08T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T02:00:17","slug":"7-6-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/7-6-3\/","title":{"raw":"7.6.3 Acute Care Partnerships","rendered":"7.6.3 Acute Care Partnerships"},"content":{"raw":"Health Standards Organization[footnote]Health Standards Organization, 2023[\/footnote] National Standard for Long Term Care Services recommends high quality safe care, in the appropriate setting. Due to age and complexity, transfers to acute care may be needed based on resident wishes. This standard includes considerations for hospital transfer of LTC residents:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Transitions in care<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Safe and sustainable repatriation<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Hospital acquired delirium and\/or complications, and infectious exposure (e.g. COVID)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Potential for admission avoidance<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Strategies to meet care in needs in LTC<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nTransitions in care:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Seniors with multiple comorbidities are complex and lead to increased mortality and service use<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Transitional care\u00a0 interventions support improved outcomes and coordinated\/integrated service.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Attending NP and NP programs supporting LTC are instrumental in integrated care, safe transitions and timely follow up<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAcute care partnership pearls:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Acute care has interest in avoiding ED visits and shortening length of stay<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Partnership with acute care may facilitate care pathways to: outpatient clinics and programs<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Leverage collaboration with specialties such as geriatrics and palliative care<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Enhanced communication benefits both sectors: transitional care coordinators, HCCSS, GEM nurses<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Educating acute care of LTC capabilities<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Opportunity to address a gap in services<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>Health Standards Organization<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Health Standards Organization, 2023\" id=\"return-footnote-702-1\" href=\"#footnote-702-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> National Standard for Long Term Care Services recommends high quality safe care, in the appropriate setting. Due to age and complexity, transfers to acute care may be needed based on resident wishes. This standard includes considerations for hospital transfer of LTC residents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transitions in care<\/li>\n<li>Safe and sustainable repatriation<\/li>\n<li>Hospital acquired delirium and\/or complications, and infectious exposure (e.g. COVID)<\/li>\n<li>Potential for admission avoidance<\/li>\n<li>Strategies to meet care in needs in LTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transitions in care:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seniors with multiple comorbidities are complex and lead to increased mortality and service use<\/li>\n<li>Transitional care\u00a0 interventions support improved outcomes and coordinated\/integrated service.<\/li>\n<li>Attending NP and NP programs supporting LTC are instrumental in integrated care, safe transitions and timely follow up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Acute care partnership pearls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acute care has interest in avoiding ED visits and shortening length of stay<\/li>\n<li>Partnership with acute care may facilitate care pathways to: outpatient clinics and programs<\/li>\n<li>Leverage collaboration with specialties such as geriatrics and palliative care<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced communication benefits both sectors: transitional care coordinators, HCCSS, GEM nurses<\/li>\n<li>Educating acute care of LTC capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Opportunity to address a gap in services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-702-1\">Health Standards Organization, 2023 <a href=\"#return-footnote-702-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":22,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-702","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/63"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/702\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}