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On May 1, 2006, Medical Mutual of Ohio (MMO), one of theï
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At Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo, CO, the introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR) in 2004 was a mixed blessing, at best, for the ED. Patient flow was slowed dramatically, and patient complaints rose because the staff seemed to be paying more attention to the computer than to the human beings they were treating.
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A program that provides "critical care without walls," originally intended solely to support the intensive care units (ICUs) at Christiana Healthcare in Wilmington, DE, has been adapted to support the care of critically ill patients in two of the system's EDs. The staff assert that the program, called eICU for electronic ICU, has enhanced quality of care and speeded the resuscitation process.
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This past summer, when strong storms knocked out power in the St. Louis area, the incident command group at BJC Healthcare called the local emergency management agency (EMA) to tell them they had lost power at several of their 13 hospitals and were operating on emergency generators.
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The amount of funds allocated for emergency preparedness in President Bush's newly presented fiscal year 2007 budget may look good on paper, but as a practical matter, they won't be much help to individual hospitals, says one expert.
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When is an LWOT (left without treatment) rate of 1% not good enough? Apparently, when you are the ED managers at Affinity Medical Center, Massilon, OH, campus. An aggressive new program has further reduced that rate by 37%.
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A "homegrown" web-based tool called Web Emergency Medicine Analysis and Reporting System (WEBEMARS) has enabled ED managers at the 17 departments administered by Livingston, NJ-based Emergency Medical Associates (EMA) to readily access current data on their unit's performance, gaining valuable insights that have led to significant performance improvement.
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A Category 3 tornado hits during a four-county disaster exercise that's been planned for two years. Although that scenario seems improbable, that's exactly what happened to hospitals in the Nashville, TN, area last year. The tornado hit the ground for 20 minutes and caused about 35 injuries and seven fatalities.
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In terms of preparing your staff to handle a disaster, start by developing a good disaster plan, says Louise Kuhny, RN, MPH, MBA, CIC, associate director of standards interpretation at The Joint Commission, previously known as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
