Referral

Memory clinics provide holistic care to dementia patients, at a cost—or lack thereof “It’s like a flood-gate in a sense,” Paul Yost says. Paul Yost is a social worker at the Alzheimer’s Society of London-Middlesex. With an increase in clients lately, he is busy trying to accommodate and provide services to some of the 564,000 Canadians living with dementia—and their friends and family members who suffer with them. Now, he is travelling to other family health practices to provide services to people with dementia and their care partners. With a 49 per cent increase in new clients in three years, the Alzheimer’s Society of London-Middlesex now has 2,268 clients. Some of this is due to the baby-boomer demographic aging. Another part is due to new memory clinics being implemented in Ontario. Dr. Linda Lee implemented a new way of treating and diagnosing Alzheimer’s—a holistic approach that includes the expertise of physicians, nurses, occupational therapists and social workers. Lee has been a family physician for almost 30 years and inherited a practice for older persons. It was during this practice that she realized the current system for providing care to people with dementia was flawed—Lee says it’s not designed for the kind of care people with dementia deserve. Coming from the university town of Kitchener-Waterloo, many of Lee’s patients at her elderly practice had high levels of education. “It helped me to appreciate the magnitude of suffering—of how…

Reason for Referral and Background Information: Chris is being referred because Federal and State Guidelines mandate that a three-year re-evaluation be completed to determine if the student still qualifies for services, and are the services needed. Chris was initially placed October 28, 2009 as a second grader. At the end of Chris’s first year of school, at Starside Elementary in Desoto the DeSoto SIT team recommended Chris for an initial evaluation. The primary concern was low academic…

know how to get out if it, you could always get a referral. But how would one get a referral? Referrals aren 't the hardest thing to get, their pretty simple if you 're willing to break the rules. Three simple steps that always get me referrals are being tardy, using my phone, and mouthing off to Mr. Burke. If you do any of these three or all three at once you will surely find yourself in lunch detention. Being tardy on a daily basis is hard work and takes a lot of dedication to the cause. To be…

However there are those who come to the police seeking help and that is where the Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT) program can help those individuals who have committed and crime and want help with their substance abuse. One of the goals the police have when encountering illicit drug users is ‘providing drug offenders with opportunities to address drug problems’ (NSW Police 2015). This goal is put into good practice through the Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT)…

When you begin to look at your community in terms of referral possibilities, it is easy to see that they are everywhere. The possibilities of who could be a potential referral source are endless. Everywhere you look, you will begin to see how your services may be of interest to another service’s patients. Living with an eye for referrals is a good way to help grow your practice. It may take some practice to train your mind to think in terms of referrals, but once you do, it will be like second…

to get there. I see this frequently in my consulting and I know it is an area that holds doctors back, especially when it comes to their referral system. What I find most often is that there are many practices that do track referrals per month, or even referrals per new patient. Yet there are very few practices that are tracking the lifetime customer value of those referrals by source. This concept is going to take you a step further, so you are going beyond just knowing the monthly or yearly…

Effective Referrals for Clients with Co-Occurring Disorders Working with clients who have a co-occurring disorder can be a rewarding experience especially when the client makes progress in their recovery. However, there are more things to take into consideration with clients with co-occurring disorders. One of them is to provide services that address the client’s mental and substance use disorders. The other is to provide effective referrals to clients with co-occurring disorders. This last one…

The referral process. The primary care provider does an initial exam and refers the patient to an in network breast facility for tertiary care (Stechschulte, 2016). The following tertiary care was provided at the breast facility: a mammogram performed by a RT (radiologic technologist), an ultrasound performed by RDMS (registered diagnostic medical sonographer), with all results and recommendations reviewed and agreed upon by a radiologist (Stechschulte, 2016). The primary care provider after…

In many cases, there would be very high risk for endodontists to provide services for referring general practitioners, not for the patients. Losing referral dentists means you are losing financial profits of the present, and also of the future. When the interests and benefits of patients are conflicting to those of referring dentists, the highest priority should be given to patient’s benefit. This is very clear from the ethical point of view; however, when the ethical standards of referring…

Self referrals- Self-referral is a system of access that allows patients to refer themselves which basically means for them to go see someone preferably a doctor directly, without having to see or be prompted by another healthcare practitioner' Professional referrals- professionals’ referrals is when a care professional recommends and refers you to a medical or paramedical professional. For example someone goes to visit the GP and to see the doctor about their pain on their knees. The doctor…