NYPSTAT
(800) NYP-STAT / (800) 697-7828
The NewYork-Presbyterian Physician Access Transfer Center will coordinate your patient's transfer to the tertiary services available at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. To arrange for the transfer of a patient, call the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Physician Access Transfer Center at (800) NYP-STAT.
Required Information
The following information requested must be provided by the patient's attending physician of record:
- Patient's name, date of birth and weight
- Patient's primary diagnosis/required service
- Requested campus: NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia or NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell
- Name and phone number of sending physician
- Name of sending hospital and phone number of nursing unit
- Patient's status
- Current condition
- Desired time for transfer
- Plan of care
Fax patient demographic information to (212) 746-8737.
24/7 Coordination
Day or night, your call will be answered by the Pediatric/Neonatal/OB Transfer Nurse Coordinator who will gather the pertinent information necessary to initiate the hospital-to-hospital patient transfer process.
Fast Access to a Specialty Physician
Our Transfer Nurse Coordinators will connect you to the appropriate NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital physician to discuss the patient case and determine clinical appropriateness for transfer.
Streamlined Transfers
Upon mutual physician approval, our Transfer Nurse Coordinators will expedite your patient's transfer by:
- Triaging the patient to the appropriate unit at the requested campus
- Coordinating assignment of the hospital bed as well as other administrative matters with the Admitting Department at requested campus
- Facilitating communication between medical and nursing staff of the transferring hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
EMS Transport
Whenever possible, transport of your patient will be coordinated through NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s EMS, which has ambulances stationed at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell campuses.
To better serve the Westchester County and Hudson Valley regions, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital also has an ALS ambulance stationed at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Westchester, providing pediatric, neonatal, and adult transport. The appropriate level of EMS transportation is determined in consultation with the transferring and accepting physicians, and NewYork-Presbyterian’s highly trained transfer team.
Ongoing Follow-Up
Our Transfer Nurse Coordinators will keep you informed of your patient's status throughout the transfer process. They are available 24/7 to answer questions regarding the transfer process such as: name of accepting physician, physician contact information, accepting nursing unit, and patient arrival time.