Interfacility transfer

Full toolkit coming soon.

Toolkit resources

Section 2- Drafting and Implementing IFT agreements

• Suggested teams for developing an agreement (Figure 1) coming soon
• Steps for developing an agreement (Figure 2) coming soon

Section 3 - Regulations and Standards

• Pediatric equipment lists
  • ED, National Pediatric Readiness Project
  • EMS, Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Project
• EMTALA, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Regulations & Policies, Federal Aviation Administration
• Air Ambulance Service, U.S. Department of Transportation
• State Model Rules for the Regulation of Air Medical Services, NASEMSO

Section 4- Talking points

• Talking points to support establishing an agreement - coming soon

Section 5- Types and Examples of IFT Agreements

• Transfer Agreement, California Department of Health
• Memorandum of Understanding, State of Oklahoma
• Interhospital Transfer Agreement [Trauma Patients], Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health in New Jersey
• Transfer Agreement Example, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Section 6- Establishing Clinical Processes in Your ED

Sample transfer checklists

• Sample Pediatric Interfacility Transfer Checklist, The Handbook of Advanced Pediatric Life Support
• EMSC Pediatric Provider & Caregiver Checklist, EMSC Connecticut Transfer Checklist

Burn patient referral

• Guidelines for Burn Patient Referral, American Burn Association

Section 7 - Transportation considerations

• Figure 4 - Considerations for choosing the appropriate transport method, University Hospitals - coming soon
• Figure 5- EMSC transport guidelines for providers, CT EMSC - coming soon

Section 8 - Patient and Family Considerations

• Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care
• Family Voices
• What Is Health Literacy?, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Section 9 - Special populations

Children and youth with special health care needs

• Complex Child
• Programs and Projects, Family Voices
• Collaborative Conversations With Families to Advance the Clinical Care of Children With Medical Complexities and Disabilities, C6 Seminar Series
• STARS: Special Needs Tracking & Awareness Response System, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital

Infection control

• Infection control guideline library, CDC

Section 10 - The importance of monitoring quality

Form examples

Coming soon

Quality improvement resources

• How to Improve, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Lean Six Sigma Institute
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Trauma Quality Improvement Program, American College of Surgeons
• Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems
• Ground & Medical Quality in Transport (may have a fee)
• EMSC QI Collaboratives
• EMSC QI tools