Percentage of emergency department visits by residents of continuing care homes – type B (formerly designated supportive living), or continuing care homes – type A (formerly long term care) that resulted in admission/transfer to hospital. (see data definition)
Healthcare Areas
Home / Healthcare Areas / Continuing Care Homes: Type B / Delivery of care / Admission to hospital from the emergency department
Also in this section
- Primary Healthcare
- Clinical care
- Delivery of care
- Consistent use of the same primary care provider (provider continuity)
- Consistent use of the same primary care clinic (clinic continuity)
- Primary care provider use of various visit types
- Emergency department visits for minor conditions
- Primary care provider visit after a hospital stay for selected chronic conditions
- Patient experience
- Patients’ experience with primary care providers’ listening
- Patients’ rating of primary care provider’s explanations
- Patients’ experience with appointment length
- Patients’ experience with primary care provider’s respect
- Patients’ experiences with their primary care provider involving them in care decisions
- Patient experience with care coordination
- Patient experience with primary care provider availability
- Patients’ overall experience with their primary care provider
- Emergency Department
- Wait times
- EMS response time for life-threatening events
- Time spent by EMS at hospital
- Patient time to see an emergency doctor
- Patient emergency department total length of stay (LOS)
- Length of time emergency department patients wait for a hospital bed after a decision to admit
- Time to get X-ray completed
- Emergency department volumes
- Delivery of care
- Hospital patients who require an alternate level of care
- Length of patient hospital stay compared to Canadian average length of hospital stay
- Patients who left without being seen (LWBS) by an emergency department doctor
- Patients waiting in the emergency department for a hospital bed
- Hospital occupancy
- Patient experience
- Patient experience with staff introductions
- Patient experience with communication about follow-up care
- Patient experience with help for pain
- Communication with patients about possible side effects of medicines
- Patient reason for emergency department visit
- Overall patient experience with emergency department communication
- Overall rating of care
- Highlight Meaningful Changes
- Wait times
- Hospital Care
- Delivery of care
- Patient experience
- Overall rating of care
- Patient experience with talking with staff about help needed at home
- Patient experience with staff helping with pain
- Patient experience with information about their condition and treatment
- Patient experience with involvement in care decisions
- Patient experience with communication with nurses and doctors
- Client experience
- Number of different professional care staff
- Professional care staff gave choice in how care is provided
- Professional care staff explanation easy to understand
- Professional care staff listened carefully
- Professional care concerns handled satisfactorily
- Number of different personal care staff
- Personal care staff informed of arrival time
- Personal care staff listened carefully
- Personal care staff explanation easy to understand
- Personal care concerns handled satisfactorily
- Personal care staff were supportive
- Personal care staff had a warm presence
- Overall rating of professional care
- Overall rating of personal care
- Client overall care experience
- Home care helps clients stay at home
- Clinical care
- Symptoms of delirium
- Mood worsened from symptoms of depression
- Behavioural symptoms improved
- Inappropriate use of antipsychotics
- Worsening pain
- New pressure ulcers
- Physical restraint use
- Unexplained weight loss
- Cognitive performance
- Frailty and risk of health decline
- Potential depression
- Activities of daily living
- Delivery of care
- Family experience
- Family experience with courtesy and respect
- Family experience with decision-making
- Family experience with food
- Family experience with healthcare services and treatments
- Family experience with resident cared for by the same staff
- Family experience of resident and family council
- Family experience with sharing concerns
- Family experience with staffing
- Family experience with staff responsiveness
- Family overall rating of care
- Resident experience
- Resident overall experience
- Resident experiences with sharing concerns
- Resident experiences with rules
- Resident experiences with independence
- Resident experiences with feeling safe
- Resident experiences with activities
- Resident experience with getting their healthcare needs met
- Resident experience with food
- Resident experience with decision-making
- Delivery of care
- Resident experience
- Resident experience with decision-making
- Resident experience with food
- Resident experience with getting their healthcare needs met
- Resident experiences with sharing concerns
- Resident experiences with feeling safe
- Resident experiences with independence
- Resident experiences with rules
- Resident experiences with activities
- Resident overall experience
- Family experience
- Family experience with courtesy and respect
- Family experience with decision-making
- Family experience with food
- Family experience with healthcare services and treatments
- Family experience with resident cared for by the same staff
- Presence of a resident and family council
- Family experience with sharing concerns
- Family experience with staffing
- Family overall rating of care
Continuing Care Homes: Type B
Formerly
Designated Supported Living
Designated Supported Living
Admission to hospital from the emergency department
Data courtesy of Alberta Health Services and Alberta Health
What do you think?
- Looking at these results over time, are there differences between zones? Between continuing care home – type B (formerly designated supportive living) and continuing care home – type A (formerly long term care)? What factors could account for these differences?
Understanding “admission to hospital from the emergency department”
When a resident is admitted to the hospital, also referred to as acute care, from the emergency department, it means that their condition is too unstable for them to be treated in the emergency department and returned safely to their site. Admission to hospital will depend on the healthcare needs of the resident and will occur if a resident requires treatments and services that can only be provided by an acute care hospital.
Considerations when viewing the results:
When thinking about the number of residents admitted to hospital from the emergency department, providers and leaders can consider a number of things to better understand and improve these results. Some questions they could ask before taking action include:
- What are the some of the common reasons that result in hospital admissions for continuing care home residents? Of these reasons, which conditions could have been better managed at a site to avoid admission to hospital?
- What types of resources and supports do sites require to ensure, as much as possible, that use of emergency departments and acute care is appropriate?