A recent survey of ED docs indicates that they believe that ED overcrowding is getting worse. From the Modern Healthcare story:
In a survey of nearly 1,500 practicing emergency physicians, more than 80% said crowded conditions in their emergency departments had increased either slightly (40.2%) or significantly (42.4%) in the past year, according to a recent […]
Reader Geoff T. sent this link to a story in Healthcare Design magazine on a new heart hospital at Ohio State University Medical Center. While I have mixed feelings about specialised hospitals, I was encouraged by the broad adoption of variable acuity units. For this crew, building a new hospital just like the old hospital […]
Critical care units (CCUs) are an important part of any hospital. Typically, between 8% and 12% of a hospital’s beds are devoted to some form of critical care (about 3% outside the US), which consumes half of an institution’s direct patient care budget; CCUs are expensive.
A standard indicator for hospital patient flow problems are ED […]
I will be presenting at the AACN/NTI meeting, along with Cheryl Batchelor, the Executive Director Clinical Operations at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. Our talk, sponsored by Welch Allyn, is titled “Patient Flow Unplugged: JCAHO Guidelines and the Acuity Adaptable Unit.” If you’re an early riser, you can attend this Sunrise Session here:
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
7:00am […]
