{"id":1039,"date":"2017-06-22T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/uncategorized\/opening-yellow-envelope"},"modified":"2017-09-12T03:50:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T03:50:56","slug":"opening-yellow-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/news\/opening-yellow-envelope","title":{"rendered":"Opening the Yellow Envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Opening the Yellow Envelope<\/h1>\n<p>Metro North hospitals and residential aged care facilities have joined together to enhance patient information handover and provide better continuity of care.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1704\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1704\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1043\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/redcliffe-yellow-envelope_8064216.jpg\" alt=\"Metro North, Brisbane North PHN and QAS partners coming together to launch the refreshed Yellow Envelope at Redcliffe Hospital!\" width=\"385\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/redcliffe-yellow-envelope_8064216-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/redcliffe-yellow-envelope_8064216-266x150.jpg 266w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/redcliffe-yellow-envelope_8064216-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/redcliffe-yellow-envelope_8064216.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metro North, Brisbane North PHN and QAS partners coming together to launch the refreshed Yellow Envelope at Redcliffe Hospital!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane North PHN and Queensland Ambulance Service formed an alliance to refresh the Yellow Envelope \u2013 a key tool that ensures emergency and hospital staff have the information they require to look after our patients appropriately and provide clinical handover from and to residential aged care facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Davis, Director of Clinical Operations Strategy Implementation unit said the Yellow Envelope was made possible by the formation of the Innovation Alliances in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Innovation Alliances were set up to manage winter bed pressures. One of these alliances was the Primary Care to Emergency Alliance which identified handover of residents from residential aged care facilities as a concern and gave us the opportunity to refresh the Yellow Envelope and reintroduce it to our clinicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt provides information about the patient\u2019s medical history to allow clinicians to continue the right care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking together on projects such as the Yellow Envelope allows us to provide holistic, integrated and responsive care to achieve the best outcomes possible for our frail older patients,\u201d Ms Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>The Yellow Envelope has been successfully re-implemented at Redcliffe Hospital and will be refreshed across Metro North.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Redcliffe Hospital Louise Oriti said the refreshed Yellow Envelope will provide a connected health service for patients in the Redcliffe and Metro North community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe refreshed Yellow Envelope will benefit our Redcliffe community and the greater Metro North community by facilitating admission and discharge processes,\u201d Ms Oriti said.<\/p>\n<p>This clinical handover tool also aligns with the <em>Year of the Frail Older Person<\/em> campaign, helping to respond to the challenges of caring for an ageing population by improving communication between all providers of care.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro North hospitals and residential aged care facilities have joined together to enhance patient information handover and provide better continuity of care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/redcliffe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}