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NewsHospitals brace for ED overload, enhance primary care
New research in the Archives of Ophthalmology warns hospitals to prepare for an overload of emergency department (ED) visits after health reform kicks in. Florida hospital EDs already saw patients Read more...
Door-to-doc model improves ED flow, cuts costs
Hospital leaders looking to improve care delivery while lowering costs should focus their operations management efforts on the emergency department (ED) and should consider embracing the door-to-doc Read more...
Critics: Emergency department wait time claims unsubstantiated
As hospitals boost their short emergency department (ED) wait times or 30-minutes-or-less pledges, skeptics question whether these claims are substantiated with data. Hospitals have been touting Read more...
Add NPs to reduce emergency visits in half, coordinate care
Hospitals trying to reduce emergency department (ED) crowding should look to new research from Loyola University Health System (LUHS), which found that adding a nurse practitioner (NP) to staff can Read more...
Hospitals pledge low ER wait times to win patients over
In an effort to gain patients, hospitals are pledging low emergency department (ED) wait times. For example, Arizona's Northwest Medical Center says that emergency patients should not have to wait Read more...
Emergency rooms triage with ankle hotline
With lower extremity sprain and strain injuries making up more than one-third (36 percent) of emergency department (ED) visits, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston propose using Read more...
Hospital violence strikes nurses' aids the most
With violence rising in U.S. hospitals, it may not be all that surprising that nurses' aides have the most violent job in Washington State, with registered nurses ranking as runner up, according to Read more...
EDs fail to recognize elder cognitive impairment
Older patients with cognitive impairment, such as dementia and delirium, pay a large number of visits to emergency departments (ED), but EDs may be ill equipped to identify their impairment, Read more...
Hospitals offer freestanding EDs to remedy overcrowding
As emergency department closures are forcing urgent-care patients into overcrowded facilities, hospitals are offering emergency care outside hospital walls. Instead, many healthcare systems are using Read more...
Hospitals slash sepsis rates with nursing-focused strategies
In what could be a template for other hospitals to follow, nine acute care facilities in the Bay Area teamed to dramatically reduce their sepsis mortality rates, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more...
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