ED Management – June 1, 2008
June 1, 2008
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Specialist hospitalists: Could they be the answer to the challenge of call panels?
Since the hospitalist concept was introduced several years ago, proponents have lauded its potential advantages: all-day availability, greater familiarity with the hospital environment, improved clinical expertise through greater experience, increased incentives to reduce lengths of stay, and freeing up physicians with outside practices. -
Disaster surge fails to fluster ED staff
Things were a little slower than normal on Tuesday evening, March 25, in the ED at Caritas Norwood (MA) Hospital. -
Award-winning program slashes sepsis mortalities
In a campaign that earned it the prestigious Ernest Amory Codman Award from The Joint Commission, Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE, reduced the mortality rate for patients with severe sepsis from 61.7% to 30.2%. -
Sepsis program requires cooperation of departments
An ED manager must work closely with several other departments to ensure the success of a sepsis treatment program, says Tom Sweeney, MD, FACEP, vice chair of emergency medicine at Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE. -
Competitive concerns bring PAs, NPs into triage area
As the old adage goes, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." That's exactly what the ED leaders at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle did about one year ago when they noticed the rapid growth of urgent care clinics within local pharmacies. -
New psych unit eases patient burden in ED
A new psych unit, located within about 100 feet of the main ED at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, has freed up precious bed hours while improving staff and patient satisfaction. -
How to create an ED psych unit 'from scratch'
While the creators of the Psychiatric Transition Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, could find no pre-existing models to emulate, the successful unit they created may now serve as a model for other EDs. -
'Mock EDs' help finalize design plans
In a warehouse owned by Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Broward Health, teams of nurses, physicians, and techs from the EDs at Coral Springs Medical Center and Imperial Point Medical Center, both in Fort Lauderdale, recently toured mock emergency treatment rooms as the final stage of preparation for construction of the new EDs at those Broward Health facilities.