Transfer Between Departments in the Medical Center Sample Clauses

Transfer Between Departments in the Medical Center. The attending Practitioner for a patient who becomes medically unstable and requires emergency attention by a member of another Department or specialty is responsible for identifying a Practitioner from the appropriate Department or specialty to whose care the patient can be transferred. If the Practitioner to whom the patient is to be transferred refuses to accept the patient, the patient will be assigned to another Practitioner by the Section Head or Department Chief of the Department into which the patient is being transferred. If the Section Chair or Department Chief is not available, the President of the Medical Staff, or in the absence of the President, the President-Elect of the Medical Staff, will be responsible. This transfer of care shall be recorded in the patient's medical record. A patient may only be transferred from a post-anesthesia recovery unit to another Medical Center Department upon the recommendation of an anesthesiologist, another qualified Practitioner or a certified registered nurse anesthetist.