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Following are sample responses recommended by Shelley Cohen, RN, CEN, a member of the Emergency Nurses Associations task force on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
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The final version of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act says an ED is any department or facility of the hospital, whether situated on or off the main hospital campus, that:
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Question: Ive heard the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued instructions that require us to provide emergency physicians more detail on what procedures are billed under their names. How is this going to affect billing for my ED?
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These were some other key findings from the diversion study released recently by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) in Washington, DC.
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A project that started out as a response to post-9/11 bioterrorism fears is turning out to have much more practical everyday applications, say two ED managers who have pioneered the use of a system that monitors for unusual patterns or patient surges. While still valuable for detecting terrorist attacks, the system can reveal more mundane but useful information in any ED, they say.
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The EDs at St. Charles Mercy in Oregon, OH, and St. Anne Mercy in Toledo have adopted a streamlined triage system to shorten waiting times, and managers report that it has been very effective without compromising patient safety.
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While youre waiting for three physicians to return your calls about their patients in your ED, you anxiously watch the clock and realize that if they dont call before leaving the office, they arent likely to call until tomorrow. Dont you have enough to worry about without trying to track down dozens of physicians all the time?
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Here are the 15 Nursing-Sensitive Performance Measures endorsed by the Washington, DC-based National Quality Forum.
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Do nurses at your facility complain they are overworked and understaffed? If so, you may have a bigger problem than retention on your hands compelling new evidence suggests poor nursing conditions put patients in danger.
