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- Update to Ambulatory Referral to Rehabilitation and Speech Therapy Orders
Provincial stakeholders have been working over the last several months to make improvements to the "Ambulatory Referral to Rehabilitation" and "Ambulatory Referral to Speech Therapy" orders, as higher than expected rates of missing information have been delaying patient access to these specialty care areas.
As part of this work, starting April 1, 2025, instead of an authorization question in the orders, an authorization statement will appear after selecting “Eating/Feeding/Swallowing” as the functional problem the patient is experiencing (click the camera icon below for a screenshot). This change will streamline the process when referrals are submitted to Ambulatory clinics who perform Instrumental Swallowing Assessments (Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study [VFSS] and Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing [FEES]).
If you have personalized a referral where you have selected "Eating/Feeding/Swallowing" as a functional problem, you will need to re-personalize the Referral order from the facility list, and within your order sets and SmartSets.