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Admission Categories:
♦ Day Surgery/ Out Patient admission: when the therapy/procedure/treatment do not require observatio over
time. In these cases we recommend the presence of an accompanying person for your return home.
When discharged, all the necessary information for the post procedure course will be provided in addition
to emergency phone numbers
♦ Standard admission: when the therapy/procedure/treatment performed require an extended period of
observation (0 -1 day or several days).
♦ Urgent admission: ensures urgent diagnostic and therapy procedures.
Admission from ER
Our emergency room department has been accredited by the Lombardy Region as DEA (Dipartimento di Emergenza e Accettazione - Emergency/urgency and Admission Department).
It is located on the first floor of the admissions unit and directly connected with the entire emergency area (surgery area, Intensive care, Acute care Radiology and Hemodynamic rooms).
The Emergency Department ensures emergency high specialty functions including, cardiac surgery, Coronary Treatment Unit, Hemodynamics, vascular surgery, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, and general medicine.
The DEA also provides the procedures required to clinically stabilize patients in case of patients requiring specialty procedures that are not included in the facilities accreditations.
TRIAGE Code
The “Triage” system is a process through which DEA patients are selected and classified based on the type and level of urgency of their condition; it should not be confused with the medical examination, as the goal of the triage is specifically to determine the priority level assigned to patients prior to a physical examination.
Therefore, it represents the first moments of a patient’s entry and evaluation and is usually performed by specific nursing staff.
The critical code levels are divided in four categories, as per the following definitions:
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red code
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highly critical immediately life threatening condition;
highest priority access level |
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yellow code
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urgent but not immediately life threatening condition; high
priority access level |
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green code
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Less critical condition; low access priority |
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white code
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not critical condition. This code is assigned to patients
requesting healthcare services that are not urgent and
should be handled by other departments (ambulatory). These
patients should go through the emergency department and
are therefore charged the Ticket
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Scheduled Admission
Access to scheduled admissions is possible either with a General Medicine physician or other physician’s request
All admissions through the SSN (National Healthcare System) are fully covered and free of charge for patients
Patients who prefer not to go through the SSN can request to be admitted at their own expense or through the many plans and agreements with Insurances and Institutes
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ADMISSION CATEGORIES
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DESCRIPTION
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ACCESS DOCUMENTS
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Admissions covered by the National Healthcare System (SSN)
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Hospitalization charges are fully covered; the patient owes nothing.
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General Medicine Physician’s referral/request.
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Unfunded Admission
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Hospitalization charges are entirely paid for by the patient; the patient waives healthcare coverage provided by the SSN.
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Admission requested by a physician
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Patient claims financial responsibility for admission
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Unfunded, Funded, Insured Admission
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Patient waives SSN healthcare coverage to recur to special care plans/insurance.
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Admission requested by a physician
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Patient claims financial responsibility for admission.
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Patients who do not intend to recur to the National Healthcare System must be informed in advance of the hospitalization charges. A dedicated office available to patients to respond to all their questions is located on the ground floor of the facility, called “Ufficio Degenze Solventi e Fondi” (Funds and Solvency Admission Office).
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