Are emergency rooms or emergency departments considered ambulatory care site?
For the purpose of this FOA, the answer is yes. Ambulatory settings for this FOA include healthcare clinician offices (both large and small practices), outpatient clinics, community health centers, emergency departments, urgent care centers, and ambulatory surgery centers. For the purpose of this program again, home care entities are included. Question: What if we want to focus on the transition between settings? Answer: As the FOA states, transitions, including patient-centered care during healthcare transitions, are a focus of this FOA. We define transition as the movement of patients between healthcare providers and settings as their conditions and care needs change during the course of the chronic or acute illness. Overall, the whole ASQ program includes a focus on transitions between ambulatory care settings and the inpatient setting. Non-ambulatory settings who have a strong interest in fostering safe, high-quality ambulatory care and transitions between inpatient and ambulatory
