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Good morning

I am looking to create a policy around care of patients when an event occurs outside the facility- i.e. patient  trips and falls when they are stepping up on the sidewalk to come into the building. We have some offices that contain another sites laboratory so sometimes the patients are not our patients. Do you have different tracks your team follows for those cases? How do you document if your EMR does not have record of the patient? 

Thank you for any insight this team can provide! 

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Shannon Hilliard RN
Mount Nittany Physician Grp
shilliard@mountnittany.org
Bellefonte PA
(814)278-4865
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Hi Shannon

Great question, we have differing opinions in our Health Center. I'd be interested in hearing from others on the subject. 

B

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Bernadine Claus MS, RN, NPD-BC
Director of Nursing
Whitney M Young Health Center
Albany, NY
519-591-4559
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-31-2023 09:27
From: Shannon Hilliard
Subject: Policy for treatment of patients outside the ambulatory office

Good morning

I am looking to create a policy around care of patients when an event occurs outside the facility- i.e. patient  trips and falls when they are stepping up on the sidewalk to come into the building. We have some offices that contain another sites laboratory so sometimes the patients are not our patients. Do you have different tracks your team follows for those cases? How do you document if your EMR does not have record of the patient? 

Thank you for any insight this team can provide! 

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Shannon Hilliard RN
Mount Nittany Physician Grp
shilliard@mountnittany.org
Bellefonte PA
(814)278-4865
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