Warm hand-off definition
Warm hand-off means a safe care transition that connects a
Warm hand-off means meetings that are a practice used to assist parents, guardians, or custodians in engaging in identified services that will assist in mitigating safety threats and build upon protective capacities so that a child may return home.
Warm hand-off means a victim-centered approach in which a primary care provider or first provider does a personal introduction of a victim or survivor to a referral or longer-term source of assistance.
More Definitions of Warm hand-off
Warm hand-off means the process to allow for in-person (or Telehealth/telephonic, if clinically appropriate) care coordination and behavioral health Linkages. For transitions of care, the warm handoff is the first step in establishing a trusted relationship between the Client and the new care provider to ensure seamless service delivery and coordination.
Warm hand-off means a safe care transition that connects a patient directly with a new health care or mental health care provider or interim contact, such as a crisis center worker or peer specialist, before the patient’s first appointment with the new provider, or that connects a patient directly with a screening service or mental health screener for the purposes of determining whether involuntary commitment to treatment is warranted pursuant to P.L.1987, c.116 (C.30:4-27.1 et seq.).
Warm hand-off means the direct referral and transfer of an overdose survivor immediately after medical stabilization: (1) to a licensed detoxification facility or other medical facility for detoxification, and then (2) to a substance use disorder treatment provider, with treatment matched to the individual’s clinical needs, based on a biopsychosocial assessment and application of clinical placement criteria, and coordinated with recovery support services. For purposes of this Act, in situations where the direct referral and transfer of an overdose survivor is not practicable, “warm hand- off” includes face-to-face or other follow-up contact with recent overdose survivors by first responders and individuals providing intervention services to encourage entry into treatment.4 Also, for purposes of this Act, “warm hand-off” is deemed to include the provision of harm reduction services to overdose survivors who persistently refuse referral and transfer to detoxification and treatment.5
Warm hand-off means that parents do not retell their young adult’s story, and feel their young adult is seen as an individual rather than represented by ‘some data’ (Peters et al., 2022, p. 1211). Moreover, the young adult’s voice can be better elicited, thus the process is more patient-centred. Paediatricians also prefer warm hand-offs, however both parties recognise systemic constraints/barriers such as time, costs and, at times, hospital policies (Peters et al., 2022).
Warm hand-off means ongoing communication between the referring provider, receiving provider, and participant to ensure that the participant has engaged in the services or accessed the resources to which an individual has been referred prior to the referring provider discharging the participant or ceasing communication with the individual and the receiving provider.