Welcome to John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Mashkur Husain, MD Chief Medical Resident

Background 267 bed facility. One of the largest VA hospitals. Provide primary health support to Veterans. Affiliated with WSUSOM/DMC. Provide significant portion of residents’ salary. In-patient: Medicine, Surgery, Psych and ICU. Also NH, extended care, hospice

Floor structure & Typical day Four (Blue, Green, Red and Yellow) medical teams. Each team consists of 1 resident, 2 interns, 1-2 medical student(s) and social worker. 6:45 arrive and get sign out 7-7:30 see your patients 7:30-8 AM: Pre-round with your senior. 8-11:00: Rounds with medicine attending. 11:00-11:50: Discharge 12 – 1:00 PM Morning report.

Floor structure & Typical day PM: Medicine Grand Rounds on Mondays Morning Report will be held at 1:15pm- 2:15pm (On Mondays Only) Didactics per WSU-IM program (Academic half Day), on every Wednesday 1-5 PM: Finish work (including new admissions), exit rounds and sign outs.

Admissions Flow On call resident gets code blue pager from night float senior. On call resident assign one of the intern with the other code pager, get from night float intern NP’s on Weekdays will transfer/carry Medicine admission pager # 9775 to him/herself from 8am – 1pm (similar to role of ER/IM in DRH) NP is responsible for triaging, assessing pts. and putting basic orders on weekdays from 8am-1pm From 7am to 8am the on call senior should transfer the pager to him/herself and triage patients. NP will sign out new admissions to senior resident of the respective accepting team after 1PM, this is to give the team time to finish up discharges.

Admissions Flow On the Weekend on call senior will transfer the admission pager #9775 to him/herself On call senior will get sign-out from the ER, then inform the accepting team senior about the admission ASAP Accepting senior will be responsible to evaluate the pt. ASAP in the ER (less than half an hour please) On the weekend, MOD is responsible for medicine consult (STAT) Routine consult is seen by on call attending If your attending wants you to see the consult, you can count it as a hit.

Admissions Flow On weekdays please inform the consult attending till 4:30PM after that any routine consult doesn’t need to be seen –Primary team needs to call the attending for consults. You do NOT see routine medicine consults on Weekdays. –Primary team needs to put a consult and inform the consult attending in the morning. STAT consult needs to be seen and staffed over the phone with your on call attending On STAT consult pt you round the following morning before signing out the pt to consult attending, count as a hit

Admissions Flow Team on call Q4, every 4 th day On call team gets total of 9 new admissions Non call team gets 3 new pts each per day Post call team gets no new pts. Each day on call senior will start admitting patients to him/herself after 3 pm Or whenever the other teams are capped meaning 6 admissions to medicine team whichever comes first.

Admissions Flow On call team can admit 9 patients total until 6:30 am next day. If you get all/most of the patients before night float comes in, on call will admit 6 patients and pass on 3 pts to the night float. MOD can be asked for help also after 5 pm and will admit till Night float comes in at 8PM if medicine team caps. MOD will check with on call senior to see if you need help. On call Senior will be responsible to get sign out on all the patients from ED, eyeball all of them and put basic delayed orders

Admissions Flow Senior will hand over code blue pager to NF senior resident. Intern carrying the code pager hand over to NF intern Night float senior + intern will admit up to 5 patient overnight. Any additional admission after both on call team/night float reaches cap, will go to the MOD on call. Total team cap is 20 pts. Medicine Team cross cover other medicine team Pt. admitted by MOD is cross covered by MOD till 6:30am the following day then signed out to night float senior

Admissions Flow New admission typically comes from ER Also can come from clinics, direct admissions, physician will page #9775, will give you sign-out as well as put delayed orders, Admitting Physician is also responsible to call Bed Control and precert pt Can get transfers from other VA or other hospitals, Chief Resident or MOD will review transfer packet and provide sign-out to you and put delayed orders. Can also get pt. from CLC or NH located in 6 th floor, again same process

Responsibility: 1.Cross coverage. (only medicine and step down beds). 2.You are responsible to flag the covering physician order (a must Nurses and other staff use this to contact you) 3.Urgent Labs 4.Codes (blue and gray): Keep pagers with you. Let CMR know asap if they’re malfunctioning. Respond to calls from other services and call THEIR attending. Code blue from CLC DO NOT go to ER, only falls do. 5.You are required to put code gray/blue note in CPRS and call attending. Please don’t lose code pager, you will be held responsible for it, $350 per pager. Please return test page, dial 0 to call the operator and inform them code pager is working

Responsibility: Transfers: nursing home, other VAs, outside community. Accept but do not count until they reach the floor. Once capped  inform ED and MOD (look online on intraweb). Once capped, MOD takes over admission. MOD will sign out to Night float senior at 6:30 am (must be face to face) If on-call team caps before MOD arrives (5 PM), let your attending and CMR know.

People You need to know Chief Medical Resident(s): –Mashkur Husain: –Pierre Tannous (Q&S): Housestaff coordinator: –Beverly Greene, Dial then ext

Send your case at least 48 hours in advance. It will be responsibility of the senior to go through case and correct / add to it beforehand. All cases must be from the VA, please send Pt. last Initial and Last 4 If case is not sent 48 hours in advance to CMR then senior on that team will have to conduct morning report! Zero tolerance for late comers to morning report. I keep track of your attendance. Seniors: Please attach 2 MKSAP questions and explanation to your intern presentation as well as 3 key points Morning Report

HIPAA privacy It is imperative to respect privacy of our patients in public places, outside patient rooms and on phone. It is being monitored very closely every day. Duty hours should not be violated. If there is some concern, please approach your senior/attending/CMR.

Helpful Info 4 days off per block. Work ahead. –Can not take on-call days off. –No day off on the first day or last day of rotation as this is critical for effective handoff.

Unique to the VA Meals during call days (1-2 meals). Very nice call rooms. (6 th floor/semiprivate bathroom). Exceptional computer/EMR system (paperless system) + connected to all other VAs. Patients are mainly in A3 Med, A5 Surg and A4 S/D. Paging system Nursing home/hospice unit – considered outside facility. If pt is already hospice, should be admitted as hospice.

Bounce back: Pts who are readmitted within the same block. –If before 3 pm (weekday), 1 pm (weekend) will go to original team NOT counted as a hit. Unless the team is post call and can’t take patients. –Otherwise will still be given to the original team the very next day. Admitting team will round on bounce back patient next day, write progress note and then give back to original team.

HIV verbal consent NEEDS documentation in CPRS. Core measures –Address vaccinations prior to discharge. –Document why patient with CHF is not on ACE/ARB, Beta blocker. –Why pt with CAD is not on ASA or statin

ADMISSIONS FROM EMERGENCY ROOM Once you accept patient, give the admission information to the ED physician and he/she will place “bridging orders”. Must go down to ED ASAP after getting called. Delayed orders should be written by the resident within 60 minutes of being called.

Resident supervision policy after hours Senior residents on call must call their supervising physician (Hospitalist on call for that 24 hour period) for update, review, and advice concerning any patient in the following situations: Admission to the Step Down Unit, or transfer (or possible need to transfer) of patient to SDU/ICU Code Blue or Gray called on a Medicine patient

Resident supervision policy after hours Serious change in medical status on the Medical floor or SDU (including, but not limited to: blood pressure; respiratory, cardiac or neurological status) Concern that the ED is inappropriately admitting a patient to Medicine floor when he should go to ICU or to the SDU.

VA pt. info Don’t share VA protected health information PHI outside of the VA system. Don’t share (not even by using {secure}) –SMS, iMessage. –Non-secure voic , e.g iPhone. –Drop Box, Google Drive, icloud May by sending a secure message: To automatically set up – just open Microsoft Outlook.

1.Covering physician order + flag must be added on every admission and transfer. The 3 essential EMR tasks

2. Medication reconciliation: Use the H&P template when admitting a pt. and make sure to indicate whether or not there is a discrepancy between home meds and meds that are listed in our EMR. Must use Medication Reconciliation tool The 3 essential EMR tasks

3. Change encounter location: Make sure to select a new encounter location BEFORE adding your note (DET INPT GEN MED). Important measures Place anticipated discharge date Goal Discharge of 40% by 12am The 3 essential EMR tasks

Proper Discharge Process Rounds must end by 11:00 AM. Place your discharge order BEFORE 11:00 AM and make sure patient leaves the facility on time. Use the discharge menu. Don’t place a text order “D/C IV and D/C patient” Afternoon rounds to discuss possible discharges the next day.

Team names should be standard: Red block

Medication Reconciliation Please utilize medication reconciliation tool in EMR

Any Questions??? Mashur Husain Chief Medical Resident VA Medical Center