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SPOTLIGHT: OH health system offers mental health svcs in EDs
As FierceHealthcare readers know, mental health patients waiting for care in emergency departments seldom get specialized care while they're waiting for psych evaluations. However, in an unusual Read more...
Study: ED patients more satisfied if they know wait times
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...
EMTALA flexibility proposed to relieve on-call MD shortages
In a new Medicare hospital payment rule released in late April, CMS included a proposal clarifying its on-call policies under EMTALA. If finalized, the proposal would let a group of hospitals in a Read more...
Case study:Houston hires tele-nurses to boost 911 dispatch
Far too often, 911 operators are forced to dispatch ambulance crews who later find out that their services weren't really needed. Now, in an effort to cut down on such wasted calls, the Houston City Read more...
A physician's perspective on why the ED model is stuck
As some you will recall, in a recent column I looked at the issue of how EDs handle patients with non-critical but acute illnesses. (I'd suggested that some form of step-down care, probably in the Read more...
Case study: TX trauma hospital faces neurosurgery crisis
In a situation echoed in emergency departments around the country, the ED at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital has been turning away patients with brain and spine injuries for months due to a Read more...
NYC will prep possible organ donors prior to consent
Here's a program bound to raise some hackles, despite the potential for helping patients waiting for donor organs. New York City has announced plans to dispatch the country's first ambulance designed Read more...
Trend: More free-standing EDs opening
In recent years, the number of freestanding emergency departments has grown dramatically, climbing 23 percent from 2005 to 2006, according to the American Hospital Association. These EDs treat many Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: CA faces specialist flight from EDs
Specialists are becoming an increasingly precious commodity in emergency departments across the U.S. But even by national standards, things are particularly bad in California, whose Medi-Cal program Read more...
Case study: AZ hospital posts ED wait times on website
Scottsdale, AZ-based Scottsdale Healthcare has taken an approach more common in the travel industry and put it to use in its emergency department. The health system has begun to post emergency Read more...
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