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In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, health care professionals across the country are revisiting their disaster preparedness plans.
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In early January, Mansfield, OH, was hit by an ice storm. We essentially had a town without power for six or seven days, recalls Anthony Midkiff, MD, FACEP, director of emergency services at MedCentral/ Mansfield Hospital.
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There are times when EDs can achieve dramatic improvements in average length of stay (ALOS) or reductions in their left without being seen (LWBS) percentages in a relatively short period of time by instituting significant new process improvements, such as bedside registration or new triage protocols.
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ED managers are deluged with statistical reports from many government agencies, and yes, your eyes can glaze over glancing over page after page of seemingly endless numbers.
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In a trend that promises to create a serious challenge for EDs for the foreseeable future, talented ED managers are being lured away from their positions to alternative career paths. And, say observers, while compensation may be one factor, it is far from the only factor.
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Mary Washington Hospital is trying out a virtual bed system that, when compared to the controls, decreased the average time to triage by 39%, decreased the turnaround time for treat and released patients by 16%, and decreased door to physician times by 82%.
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Two national health care organizations have come out with contradictory positions on whether mandatory influenza vaccination for health care workers is justified.
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The leading national organizations representing ED physicians and nurses have urged the passage of the Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 2005 (H.R. 3875), introduced in mid-September by Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), and asked Congress to pass it quickly.
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Question: A patient is treated in your ED and discharged. Subsequently, the family is unhappy with the care that the patient received and brings him back to the ED.
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In recent weeks, two violent episodes involving inmates inside EDs have left managers wondering if they should take special precautions when they know a prisoner is coming to their department.