title: Centralized process facilitates transfers.
abstract: Baylor Health Care System's Patient Transfer Centers gives community hospitals a central number to call when they want to transfer patients into the Baylor system. RNs staff the center and obtain clinical information from the sending hospital. They make sure beds, and an admitting or consulting physician, are available. Process has increased satisfaction among hospitals, sending and receiving physicians.
mesh_terms: D002497:Centralized Hospital Services; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010360:Patient Transfer; D013781:Texas