# Treat & Release Toolkit

What's Inside?

Treat & Release is a tool designed to ensure patients who are sent to the emergency department from long-term care facilities (LTCs) or skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) can quickly receive the care they require in the emergency department, and, ideally be sent back to their living environment as quickly as possible. By implementing this tool in your ED with the network of SNFs or LTCs in your network, you can improve communication and provide better care for high-risk, complex older adults in your ED.

Provided here is the tool, suggestions for customizing the tool on a needs basis, a brief online training for both EDs and SNFs/LTCs, and a deck to present to key stakeholders to promote buy-in.

Why Treat & Release

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Treat & Release Tool

Fillable PDF Download

This tool is a simple form to be included in the transfer packet. It can be modified to suit your site's needs.

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Modifying the Treat & Release Tool

Discover recommendations and opportunities for customizing the tool for your network of SNFs.

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ONLINE LEARNING

Treat & Release Rapid Training

This 15 minute training program has been designed to provide both emergency care workers and long-term care/nursing home workers with an overview of the Treat & Release tool and how to use it to provide better quality of care for frail older adults being transferred to the ED for urgent care.

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ONLINE LEARNING | Geri-EM

Functional Assessment & Transitions of Care in the Older ED Patient

For deeper learning for emergency clinicians, this thorough examination of proper functional assessment and transitions of care provides the background and basic know-how that you need in the ED.

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Best Practices for Good Communication Between ED Physicians and Long-Term Care Staff

A brief discussion of the challenges often found in communication between EDs and long-term care. How can we be better partners in care through better communication?

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