Memorial Opens Follow-Up Clinic

摘要

PAWTUCKET – Memorial Hospital has created a Hos- pital Follow-Up Clinic to ensure that patients dis- charged from any area hospital can be seen quickly by a primary care physician. "We have a checklist of items we make sure are addressed – including medication reconcili- ation, follow-up testing and the patient's under- standing of the care plan – and we then turn the patient over to their primary care physician," explains DINO MESSINA, MD, PHD, FACP , associate program director in the Department of Medicine at Memorial and medical director of the Internal Medicine Clinic. "We are tracking certain parameters going forward but we're cer- tain that this clinic can make a difference and improve the quality of the transition of care from the hospital to the home for our patients.