ED Management – November 1, 2012

November 1, 2012

• Study: Hospitals struggle to implement proven strategies for eliminating ED boarding, crowding

  Emergency department administrators are well aware that crowding in the ED is associated with poorer patient outcomes, longer hospital stays, and decreased patient satisfaction.

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• Slash diversion, improve care of boarded patients with an ED-based hospital medicine (HMED) team

  One of the problems associated with the boarding of admitted patients in the ED is that the practice inevitably leads to increased diversion when the ED's capacity to care for new patients is diminished.

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• The Joint Commission reports high interest in new certification program for Comprehensive Stroke Centers

  More than 900 hospitals have been certified as Primary Stroke Centers since The Joint Commission (TJC) and the American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA) introduced the Primary Stroke Center certification program back in 2003.

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• "Yes Board" facilitates rapid sharing of key data, trims LOS in the ED by 40 minutes

  Sometimes home-grown solutions are the best ones. And if you happen to have an emergency medicine physician in your midst who is also a computer engineer, the pathway between a new idea and implementation can be especially short.

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