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Case study: TN ED diversion program works with clinics

September 23, 2008 — 1:44pm ET | By Anne Zieger
A hospital in Nashville has become the next in what planners hope will be a network of hospitals diverting non-critical cases to local clinics. Skyline Medical Center has joined Vanderbilt University... Read more...

NM hospital workers fired for posting patient photos online

September 23, 2008 — 1:13pm ET | By Anne Zieger
A pair of workers at the University of New Mexico Hospital have been fired, and others disciplined, for taking pictures of patients receiving treatment and posting the images to social networking... Read more...

Freestanding ED diverts patients from hospitals

September 15, 2008 — 1:55pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Here's one alternative approach for dealing with ED crowding. Inova HealthPlex, a freestanding emergency department, sees close to 33,000 patients annually, but has no inpatient beds. If a patient... Read more...

Case study: KY hospital ED cuts patient wait times in half

September 2, 2008 — 11:43am ET | By Anne Zieger
King's Daughters Medical Center, a 385-bed regional hospital in Ashland, KY, has pulled off a trick many of its peers would envy. The not-for-profit cut its emergency department's length of stay from... Read more...

Case study: MA hospital creates $1M quick-care unit

August 22, 2008 — 5:41am ET | By Anne Zieger
These days, virtually any emergency department can say it's overloaded--but the staff at Wareham, MA-based Tobey Hospital had a particularly difficult problem on their hands. The hospital, which... Read more...

Report: ED visits climb 36 percent over decade

August 6, 2008 — 11:11am ET | By Anne Zieger
A new report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics concludes that there were 119 million emergency room visits in 2006, up 36 percent over the last 10 years. (During the same period,... Read more...

Trend: ED 'super users' generating big expenses

July 15, 2008 — 12:28pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Everyone in the hospital business knows about the emergency department's "frequent fliers"-- the folks who show up a few times a month due to one pain or another, either because they're uninsured,... Read more...

NY woman dies on floor of public hospital

July 1, 2008 — 9:59pm ET | By Anne Zieger
In a case strongly reminiscent of the death of a Los Angeles woman at the now-closed King-Harbor hospital, a New York City... Read more...

South FL emergency depts cited for denying care

July 1, 2008 — 1:46am ET | By Anne Zieger
Five hospitals based in South Florida's Palm Beach County were recently cited for denying treatment to 30 patients entering their emergency departments last year. While these incidents reflect... Read more...

Study: ED patients more satisfied if they know wait times

June 17, 2008 — 12:47pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Making sure patients know as much as they can about their wait times is the best thing emergency departments can do to increase patient satisfaction--not managing their pain or even answering other... Read more...
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