Overcrowding in the ED is not just an inconvenience of long wait times and patients boarding in the hallways; it is nothing short of a crisis of quality of our health care system. Our results support the growing body of evidence linking ED overcrowding to potential compromises in the quality ...
Will there be a long wait before my pet is seen? Due to our nature as an emergency hospital, wait times are difficult to predict. We will not provide an estimated wait time. Your pet will be prioritized based on the actual medical urgency of their symptoms as determined by our clinical ...
The new app has been designed to help Perth residents quickly and easily choose which hospital to go to in an emergency.rnReadify says the app uses existing Perth hospital emergency wait time data, and taps into mobile device geolocation, local maps and traffic data to give people needing to...
As ED boarding times increase nationally, it is critical to recognize their potential to exacerbate health inequities and to respond with equity-focused solutions. Introduction Emergency department (ED) boarding time has been rapidly increasing across the US and has been declared a national public ...
For partner counseling and referral services, patients are asked to provide partner(s) contact information for the counselor to forward to the local health department. The patient's identity is not shared with the health department unless the patient requests the health department to contact them ...
While patient wait and lead times decreased-despite increasing volume-it is difficult to determine, for example, to what extent a specific change such as increased specialist staffing drove the improvements. Because no statistical test is available to disambiguate the effects of several changes applied...
This app will provide important instant notifications to your selected regions in an emergency or urgent situation, provide direct links to live DFES alerts (Department of Fire and Emergency Services), weather, access the SESVA WA knowledge base and provide information on the SESVA. The State Em...
fully discussing the results might help. Empowering nurses to pass that information along can also work. Another thing to consider: it is often a good idea for the flow of the department to discharge these patients as soon as possible rather than making them wait, even if they are less ...
Here’s another opinion, from the Seattle Times Article referenced below: “Kyle Moore, public-information officer for the Seattle Fire Department, said he’s always getting laughed at for using an ‘old-school pager.’ But he gets the last laugh knowing his device will respond in an emergen...
“Yeeeeaaaaah, uuuh, looks like we have a couple of poles down along the 95 (highway connecting Parker to Quartzsite).”“We are getting calls of localized flooding and running washes along Tyson. Can you send someone over to check that out?”“(Fire Department call tones…) Station 33...