Hello all. This is my first discussion post.
I manage a new practice that sees patients exclusively in ALF and skilled nursing facilities. Our patient roster is spread across 8 facilities and adding new facilities regularly.
My question is this: Is it possible to assign a patient to a facility? Many of our patients are long-term care and it makes no sense to make duplicative entries. Currently, when a new encounter is created it is assigned to the default "office" location, which doesn't really exist. Unless it is manually changed per encounter, it always appears at the default location.
I would like to assign the patient to a facility, so that all new encounters automatically populate the place of service for a given patient. I would further like to use this data to generate patient census lists on a per facility basis. I can do this in Lytec where our PM is managed, but not in our AC-EMR.
I would further like to print all encounter notes from a facility from a specified date. as is, we are going into each patient's chart, going to the past encounters tab, and printing a PDF and emailing or efaxing them to the facility. It's a cumbersome and time consuming process, and there has to be a better way.
AC ver. 8.2.2
