Hospitals move boarded ED patients to units
Case Management Weekly, March 7, 2007
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Hospitals in Edmonton, Canada, are to follow the example of a Vancouver-area hospital and move boarded ED patients into hospital units, according to the Edmonton Journal.
Patients would be moved to units whenever 25% or more of the ED's beds are filled by patients waiting for admittance to another hospital unit. The plan has cut wait times in half at Vancouver's St. Paul Hospital, according to the article. It has also led to a full day reduction in hospitalization for surgical patients.
The patients are not boarded in the hallways of the receiving units. Instead, a bed is added to an existing hospital room. If moving patients to other units does not adequately reduce the wait time in the ED, patients will be transferred to other facilities and elective surgeries will be cancelled.
Source:Patient Flow Weekly, HCPro, Inc..
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