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| Data Element Name: Type of Alternate Care Required | File Location: Master, De-Identified, De-Identified Abbreviated |
| SPARCS Data Element Number: 18 | |
| Record Positions: 96 - 96 | Format-Length: A/N - 1 |
| Effective Date: 1/1/1994 - 1/1/1999 | Revision Date: January 1999 |
| Deniable Data Element: No | |
Definition:
The code which specifies the type of alternate care required for a patient determined to need a level of care other than acute during their hospitalization.
If a determination was made as to the type of care required but the patient's condition changed necessitating a different type of alternate care, the first determined type of alternate care required is entered.
Codes and Values:- "1" = Residential Health Care Facility
"2" = Medically Related Home Care Services
"3" = Domiciliary Care
"4" = Other Institution
"5" = Home Health Service - If this field was not coded it contains blanks.
- If Type of Alternate Care was entered, Date Alternate Care Required (Data Element 19) and Total Alternate Level of Care Days (Data Element 20) were also reported.
Conversion Notes:
DDA alternate care code of '2' (Health Related Facility) was mapped to a UDS alternate
care code of '1', otherwise the DDA alternate care type was used.
See Conversion Notes for
Data Element 115 for explicit code conversion information.
