Due to some recent events, we are re-evaluating the procedure for hospital-to-hospital transfers.

Currently, the procedure is to discharge/readmit the patient to the new facility (rather than "transfer"). This comes with 2 main issues that we have identified:

1. Although orders may be re-ordered from the previous discharge facility, they only include medications and potentially an incomplete list of orders. Safety banners and nursing orders that are tied to diagnoses or previous drugs administered (e.g., systemic thrombolytics) do not follow the patient.