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W237 – Admission assessment - Type 3

OHIP Consultations and Visits Code — CONSULTATIONS AND VISITS · Schedule of Benefits

A Type 3 admission assessment is a general re-assessment of a patient who is re-admitted to a long-term care institution after a minimum 3 day stay in another institution. As per , this service is applicable to patients in chronic care hospitals, convalescent hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged, and designated chronic or convalescent care beds in hospitals, excluding patients in designated palliative care beds. A general re-assessment, defined on , includes all the services of a general assessment, but the patient's history does not need to include all the details already obtained in the original assessment.
As a general re-assessment, the service must be documented in the patient's medical record, including the elements of a full history (though details from a previous assessment need not be repeated) and an examination of all body parts and systems (, ).

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