Behavioral Health update

TRAINING ON THIS IS TO COME THIS IS AN INITIAL FYI; HOWEVER, STARTING NOW NO SI PATIENT CAN GO POV TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (EVEN A MINOR WITH PARENTS)

The behavioral health patient will now receive a BH Intake assessment via telehealth with our MSE ipads.  The BH patient at the FED will receive an MSE via telehealth but it will be in the opposite direction than we used to do.  We will enter the patient information and call BH ,place them in front of the ipad and connect the call.  

All behavioral health patients must transfer to the behavioral health facility or the main ED via ambulance.  We will disposition the patient the same way we disposition our transfers to the main hospital and place the patient in the TSQ to NWT or GST to NWT row in Cerner.  Access will admit or discharge the patient from that point.

Any patient, including minors, that refuses to transport via ambulance to behavioral health or the main ED must sign an AMA form.  The RN will call report to Access and inform the staff if the patient is coming by ambulance or signed out AMA and is coming by private vehicle. The staff in Access will be responsible for monitoring if the patient arrives in a reasonable amount of time and will take the appropriate steps to keep the patient safe.