Extreme makeover for an old, crowded ED
Accreditation Connection, September 4, 2006
At a Connecticut hospital, doctors, nurses, crisis workers, and patients have made do in a cramped, outdated emergency department that's been swamped by a 44 percent increase in patient visits in the last decade, reports the Hartford Courant.
In the emergency room that serves nearly 20 communities, "walk-in patients cross paths with ambulance cases in the crowded lobby," according to the article. "Triage nurses do the best they can, but the serious injuries end up getting treated in about the same area as the minor ones . . . Often, patients lie on gurneys in the hallways, waiting for a hospital room or further treatment."
But all of that is about to change. Click here to read about how in the newspaper's article.
And click here for a new book/CD-ROM published by HCPro Inc., Patient Flow Solutions: Essential Tools for Hospital Capacity Management that explores how to improve patient flow without building.
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