Changes at Partners Extended Care Facilities
Significant changes this spring at Partners Extended Care Facilities will affect which patients are sent to each facility. Please be aware of these changes and also consider home care as an option for patients.
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital will become a rehabilitation-focused hospital, taking patients who can undergo significant rehabilitation for strokes and complex or multiple joint replacements, or after acute illness.
Youville Hospital and Rehabilitation Center will be a major site for complex medical and surgical patients. Youville cares for patients on ventilators and intravenous medications and those requiring significant medical care. BWH Pulmonary physicians and MGH Oncology physicians see patients at Youville, which has telemetry beds.
Dialysis patients can be cared for at both Youville and Spaulding.
BWH care coordinators are experts in knowing which patients are best cared for at each facility, work closely with the care team to set a discharge plan early during the admission and provide patients and families with a coordinated message.
It is essential to provide excellent discharge summaries to go with the patient at the time of transfer. Dictated discharge summaries should be completed prior to discharge using the continuing care dictation/facility option. For complex patients, a phone call to the physicians and nurses caring for the patients will be helpful.
For more information, contact Joanne Hogan, RN, director of BWH Care Coordination, or Robert Goldszer, MD, MBA, associate chief medical officer.