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Department of Public Health trains funeral directors on CT Vitals workflow for home deaths
Summary
A Department of Public Health trainer demonstrated how funeral directors should start a death record in the CT Vitals system for home deaths, use new search features to avoid duplicates, enter pronouncement and place-of-death details, and route the case for medical certification to a primary care provider.
A staff member from the Department of Public Health, identified in the recording as the trainer, demonstrated how funeral directors should start a new death record in the CT Vitals system for a home death and how to request medical certification from a primary care provider.
The trainer said the process begins by logging into the CT Vitals system, selecting the funeral home's office, choosing Death → Start/Edit New Case, and entering the decedent's first and last name, date of death and (where available) date of birth to populate age. "We have the normal search button, but you also have 2 new features called Soundex and Swap Names," the trainer said, describing tools intended to locate similarly sounding names…
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