Refer Your Patient to the Geriatric Hospital
Depending on the type of treatment your elder patient will need, we have provided criteria and information below to aid in referring your patient to Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital. Below is hospital admission referral criteria by type of geriatric patient care required.
Medical Acute Care Transfer Criteria
The Continuum of Care nurse evaluators are responsible for determining if a patient meets the criteria for inpatient acute rehabilitation at either Emory Center for Rehabilitation Medicine or Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital. Decisions as to whether a patient meets inpatient criteria are based (but not limited to) on Interqual guidelines and other similar guidelines utilized by commercial insurances and the ability for either inpatient acute rehabilitation program to meet patient’s clinical needs.
Before referring a patient using the form below, please read over our Medical Acute Care Transfer Criteria (PDF 64 KB) document.
Long-Term Acute Care Transfer Criteria
Wesley Woods Long Term Acute Care Unit (WW LTAC) is dedicated to the care of critically ill geriatric patients. Physicians from the Departments of Hospital Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine provide comprehensive care in a multidisciplinary setting. Decisions as to whether a patient meets inpatient criteria are based (but not limited to) on Interqual guidelines or other similar guidelines utilized by commercial insurance.
Before referring a patient using the form below, please read over our Long-Term Acute Care Transfer Criteria (PDF 52 KB) document.
Inpatient Psychiatry Units Transfer Criteria
Inpatient psychiatric units treat individuals experiencing several of the following signs and symptoms of anxiety, behavioral disturbance, mood disturbance and/or psychosis:
• Failure of outpatient medication management
• Cognitive impairments with problematic behaviors (i.e.: increasing agitation, noisy vocalizations or sexually inappropriate behaviors)
• Assaultive/threatening behavior towards self or others
• Depression
• Psychosis
• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Paranoid/suspicious behaviors
• Medication non-compliance
• Refusing to eat with subsequent weight loss
The prospective patient must be medically stable and should have been seen by a medical physician if experiencing a fever, pain, foul smelling urine, cough or chest pain. The Intake and Assessment staff will need clinical information, demographics and insurance information to complete admission referral (PDF 56 KB).
For more information, please call the Intake and Assessment office at 404-728-6222.
For information on elderly patient referral to Budd Terrace, see our senior nursing facility.
