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V4.0 1999/2000 VEMD User Manual

Appendix 2

CAMPUS CODES AND TRANSFER SOURCE/DESTINATION CODES

Note: The codes contained in the Campus Code Table will be amended from time-to-time as new hospitals open and others close. The Campus Code Table will be located on the internet and will be continually updated. Please contact the HDSS/VEMD Help-desk if a code can not be located, refer to contact details.

Code Lists

This appendix contains code lists for reporting in the following fields

• Campus codes to identify the hospital transmitting the data.
• Transfer Source codes to identify the hospital from which the patient was transferred for emergency care at this hospital.
• Destination codes to identify the hospital to which the patient is transferred after emergency care at this hospital.

The code sets appear in four tables

• Public Hospitals-(new) campus code order
• Public Hospitals-alphabetical order
• Private Hospitals-(new) campus code order
• Private Hospitals-alphabetical order

In each table, information is arranged under the following headings

HOSPITAL
Listing of each public/private Victorian hospital.

CAMPUS
Listing of the name of the hospital campus, if the hospital is a multi-campus hospital.

TRANS CODE
Public hospitals only.
Listing of Transfer Source / Transfer Destination codes (1998-1999).
For a few public hospitals, the Transfer code differs from the Old Establishment Identifier, hence the additional column.

OLD ESTABLISHMENT IDENTIFIER (OLD EST ID)
Listing of the code assigned to each hospital (as distinct from campus), prior to 1.7.1999, by Allegiance Systems.

CAMPUS CODE
Listing of the codes to be reported in the Campus Code, Transfer Source and Transfer Destination fields on and from 1.7.1999.

If reporting in the Referred By or Departure Status field indicates a transfer to or from another hospital (code 6 or 4), then a code indicating the Transfer Source or Transfer Destination is required. The code for a specific hospital is the same whether it is the Transfer Source or the Transfer Destination being reported.

Prison Hospitals and Armed Forces Hospitals
Not generally recognised as hospitals by Department of Health and Family Services and therefore admission from, or separation to, such facilities is not an inter-hospital transfer.

Where the hospital transferring or receiving the patient is outside Victoria, the code format is set out as follows.

Outside Victoria (interstate or overseas) or Unknown

Interstate/Overseas Codes

First character: 9

Second character:State/overseas identifier

0 Queensland
1 New South Wales
2 Tasmania
3 South Australia
4 Western Australia
5 ACT
6 Northern Territory
7 New Zealand
8 Other Overseas

Third character: Hospital type

0 Major specialist/teaching
1 Other public acute
2 Extended care
3 Private
5 Psychiatric (public only)
6 Rehabilitation (public only)
9 Other healthcare accommodation (eg, early parenting centres)
Fourth character: 7 For all interstate and overseas codes

Thus, an extended care hospital in New South Wales would be coded 9127.

Unknown

9999 Unknown

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