Why refer?
Co-ordinated referral processes help to prevent fragmentation of care by taking advantage of a warm hand-off. Research and common sense tell us that moms and babies win when providers communicate effectively across the continuum of care.
Benefits of opening the door for communication between the patient’s medical home and our specialty practice include:
Ensures the patient gets the appropriate care and the issues you referred for are addressed while minimizing confusion and gaps in care.
Providing a direct referral impresses upon the patient the significance of the provider’s recommendation and increases the likelihood that the patient gets the advised care.
Elevates your practice’s image to the patient and enhances the patient-provider relationship.
Avoids self-referrals. Despite their best efforts, patients cannot – and should not be expected to – fully succeed in coordinating their care.
What promises does Breastfeed Atlanta make to referring providers?
Breastfeed Atlanta currently undertaking the steps to earn a Patient-Centered Connected Care Recognition. NCQA Patient-Centered Connected Care™ Recognition was built from the medical home model of care, and identifies how sites delivering infrequent or outpatient treatment—urgent care centers, retail clinics, worksite health clinics and others—communicate and connect with primary care and fit into the medical home “neighborhood.”
Breastfeed Atlanta makes every effort to:
Reserve appointments for same day referrals
Make clinical staff available for pre-referral consultations
Provide care reports on same business day
Collaborate with referring provider on secondary referrals
