Articles Tagged With: ED
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Palliative Care Integrated into Critical Care Settings, Including EDs
Although palliative care is integral to providing quality care, in the ED the focus tends to be on aggressive and life-saving measures. More education and training is needed to make ED providers more comfortable with integrating palliative care there.
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Top Copay Collectors at Pediatric EDs
By performing their job well, registrars reduce worries for families — and bad debt for the hospital. Some patient access employees share how they do it.
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ED Patients Worry About the Bill, Registrars Can Intervene
People come to the ED sick, injured, or in severe pain. This is not an opportune time to ask someone for a $100 copay — or, worse, inform them they are responsible for the entire bill.
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Protecting At-Risk Patients from Self-Harm in the ED
Researchers try to create a safer environment to keep patients and staff alike safe.
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Observation Status Is Issue in Claims Denials
Patient access should be documenting the true severity of a patient’s illness on day two or three of hospitalization. By that time, there is an actual diagnosis to support the need for admission.
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Incomplete ED Registrations Disastrous for Copay Collections
Hospitals are trying to shorten door-to-provider times. Lower-acuity patients are treated as “fast-track,” and discharged quickly. Registration teams might struggle to keep up, to the point that some patients may miss the official registration process. Without proper contact information, collection becomes exponentially more difficult.
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Health System Improves Stroke-to-Treatment, Door-to-Groin Times
University of Michigan Health in Grand Rapids has dramatically improved metrics for stroke treatment, using communication tools to connect EMS teams with specialists in neurology, radiology, nursing, laboratory, and pharmacy. The improved communication makes it possible for the hospital to activate the appropriate personnel in the ED before stroke patients arrive.
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Telemedicine May Be Effective Tool for Monitoring Certain Neurological Conditions
Also, diagnosing particular disorders by video could be as accurate as in-person visits.
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Emergency Physicians, Nurses Call for End to ED Violence
Top organizations launch campaign to help protect nation's emergency healthcare workers.
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Legislation Aims to Curb U.S. Suicide Rates
Millions of dollars would be allocated toward training emergency healthcare workers to recognize high-risk patients.