A Geriatric Evaluation and Management Program provides geriatric care, assessment and management and unplanned admissions for emergency relief.
A Geriatric Evaluation and Management Program has four components:
- A management and treatment component for a patient with a condition requiring acute medical care and management by a geriatrician and multidisciplinary team. Comorbidities are present which are expected to lead to an increased length of stay.
- An assessment and management component for an ongoing medical condition following the acute phase of care, requiring continued medical intervention and multidisciplinary input to improve level of functioning. A patient with a medical condition for which an acute AN-DRG casemix payment has already been made, who requires ongoing geriatrician and multi-disciplinary management and assessment of complex medical, psychological, social and/or functional conditions and needs. These patients require the agency to record a statistical separation to change Care Type from acute to sub-acute.
- An assessment and management component for reduced level of functioning without an acute specific medical episode. A patient with a slowly reducing level of functioning requiring clinical intervention and management by a geriatrician, in addition to multidisciplinary assessment or management of complex medical, psychological, social and/or functional conditions and needs.
- The emergency relief component encompasses unplanned admissions
for care and support of a person in a stable condition requiring
accommodation and clinical care to provide urgent or emergency
relief to carers.
The Geriatric Evaluation and Management
Program excludes Nursing Home Type/ Non-Acute patients.
