Mercy Admitting
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þ Dr. Pinto's Group:
  <Pinto.TXT>

þ As of the DEM meeting 12/2010, decided to 

þ County Jail
 - Outpatient mgt by Medical Unit, Dr. Mike Patterson
 - Hospitalist is Dr. Alan Barnett, 562-3317 (office), 666-1151 (pager)
 - All Jail patients admitted to Dr. Barnett

þ Consult procedure for Surgery
 - as of 2000, call the SOD only for all surgery consults except trauma
   and potential leaking AAAs (attending and resident at the same time)
 - 6AM-11PM: call attending and SOD (resident on call for ED) at same time
 - 11PM-6AM: call SOD only
 - full text of memo: <surgatt.txt>

þ Trauma Consults:
  <TraumPol.TXT>

þ Admitting Procedure for Medicine
  <MedAdmit.TXT>


þ Managed Care
 - AETNA/U.S. Healthcare:
   as of Feb 1998 memo from Jay Krakovitz, M.D., Regional Medical Director
  + Admit to Primary if has privileges, if not, OK to admit to
    Leslie Giovanni (562-3292) or Arshad Mahmood (341-7887)
  + emergency consults to subspecialists OK.
  + this does not apply to pediatric, OB, chemo, surgical admissions,
    dialysis, HIV infections with HIV specialists, acute leukemia, and
    specific procedure admissions.