Navigating the Admitting Procedures at EPMC

At Estes Park Medical Center, we want to ensure that the admitting process for any type of outpatient procedure, surgery, or scheduled tests is streamlined.  Your first impression of our hospital will leave the most lasting impression and it is our goal to provide you, the patient, with an admitting process that is efficient to your needs.  Our goal is to provide you with a positive and efficient patient admitting experience.  

As a patient at EPMC, it is important to know that all orders for medications, IV’s, blood work, x-rays, outpatient procedures, and surgery require a physician’s order.  Additionally this order must be originated or co-signed by a physician credentialed at Estes Park Medical Center. 

What does credentialed mean? 

In order to best serve the interests of Estes Park Medical Center and the health care needs of the community which it serves, Estes Park Medical Center awards credentials and privileges to qualified physicians in the following categories:

      Attending (active) staff

      Courtesy staff

      Non -clinical consultant staff

In accordance with federal and state requirements, Estes Park Medical Center requests comprehensive information from candidates for medical staff membership and performs primary source verification of their credentials.  In addition to credentials information, Estes Park Medical Center requests and examines information related to specific competencies that are based on the physician’s area of expertise.  Privileges are then granted based on current performance information. 

Patients who are admitted for non-invasive diagnostic types of procedures such as Holter monitors for the heart, EKG’s , physical therapy, speech therapy, or occupational therapy must provide a physician name, local phone and fax number for results, updates, or additional orders.  The physician who ordered the original tests will be notified with any questions, changes in condition or additional orders that may be needed.

If a patient’s physician is not credentialed at Estes Park Medical Center, it is the patient’s responsibility to contact their primary physician and have their physician directly contact a credentialed physician at Estes Park Medical Center.  However, Estes Park Medical Center credentialed physicians are not obligated or responsible to write orders or co-sign orders of non-credentialed physicians.  It is in the patient’s best interest to have an established physician at Estes Park Medical Center.     

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES (SPANISH)