Download or read book The Impact of Freestanding Emergency Centers on Hospital Emergency Department Use written by Mindy S. Ferber and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freestanding Emergency Centers written by Peter M. Friend and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolving Role of Emergency Departments in the United States written by Kristy Gonzalez Morganti and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores the evolving role that hospital emergency departments play in the U.S. health care system. EDs evaluate and manage complex and high-acuity patients, are the major point of entry to inpatient care, and serve as "the safety net of the safety net" for patients who cannot get care elsewhere. The report examines the role that EDs may come to play in either contributing to or reducing the rising costs of health care.
Download or read book Hospital Based Emergency Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions. Hospital-Based Emergency Care addresses the difficulty of balancing the roles of hospital-based emergency and trauma care, not simply urgent and lifesaving care, but also safety net care for uninsured patients, public health surveillance, disaster preparation, and adjunct care in the face of increasing patient volume and limited resources. This new book considers the multiple aspects to the emergency care system in the United States by exploring its strengths, limitations, and future challenges. The wide range of issues covered includes: • The role and impact of the emergency department within the larger hospital and health care system. • Patient flow and information technology. • Workforce issues across multiple disciplines. • Patient safety and the quality and efficiency of emergency care services. • Basic, clinical, and health services research relevant to emergency care. • Special challenges of emergency care in rural settings. Hospital-Based Emergency Care is one of three books in the Future of Emergency Care series. This book will be of particular interest to emergency care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the deficiencies in emergency care systems.
Download or read book Emergency Department Operations and Administration An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America written by Joshua Joseph and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Joshua Joseph and Benjamin White, focuses on Emergency Department Operations and Administration. Topics include: Emergency Department Operations Overview; Queuing Theory and Modeling ED Resource Utilization; Factors Affecting ED Crowding; Staffing and Provider Productivity in the ED; Patient Assignment Models in the ED; ED Layout and Organization; Lean Processes in the ED; ED Observation and Alternatives to Admission; Quality Assurance in the ED; Information Management in the ED; Best Practices in Communication and Patient Safety; Optimizing Patient Experience in the ED; Management of the Academic ED; and Strategies for Provider Well-being in the ED.
Download or read book Freestanding Emergency Departments written by Nitish Patidar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation examined the role of Freestanding Emergency Departments (FSEDs) in the current United State health care system. The study collected the primary data on FSEDs in the United States and analyzed the factors associated with the hospitals operating FSEDs and its effect on hospital financial performance. The relationship of presence of FSEDs in the market and Medicare expenditure per person was also studied. The Resource Dependency Theory was used to study the effect of market and organizational factors on the hospital decision to operate an FSED. Panel data from 2002 to 2011 was analyzed using logistic multivariate regression with year and state fixed effects, with standard error correction for clustering at hospital level. Partial evidence was found to support the hypothesis that environmental munificence and complexity were related to hospital's decision to operate an FSED. Organizational size, higher financial performance, and affiliation with hospital system were also significantly related to hospital operating FSEDs. Based on Transaction Cost Economic Theory, we hypothesized that hospitals may use FSED as a vertical integration strategy to lower transaction costs, and as a consequence increase their financial performance. The relationship between hospital operating FSED and financial performance was analyzed by market share as mediation factor. The results showed that the relationship between hospital operating FSEDs and financial performance, measured as operating margin, was positive and significant. The aforementioned relationship was partially mediated by market share. Finally, the presence of FSEDs in the market was found to be positive and significantly associated with the higher total Medicare expenditure per person.
Download or read book For Emergency Use Only written by Anthony Spinelli and published by Healthcare Intelligence Net. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just teaching patients not to call their doctor at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon can reduce unnecessary emergency department (ED) utilization, a trend that is sapping the resources of EDs around the nation. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 55 percent of the 90 million visits to EDs in the United States in 1996 were unnecessary. In healthcare dollars, that means that 40.5 million people paid up to three times as much for routine care at the ED as they would have paid at a physician?s office. Teaching timely access to outpatient care is just one tactic covered in this special report, which is based on an October 2006 audio conference sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN). For Emergency Use Only: Curbing Unnecessary Emergency Room Use Through Education, Accountability and Physician Engagement provides a blueprint for health plans, hospitals and providers desiring to address and reduce unnecessary ED utilization in their populations. In this 35-page special report, Roberta Burgess, clinical case manager, Community Care Plan of Eastern Carolina, and Gerald Kiplinger, vice president and executive director of the Georgia Enhanced Care program for APS Healthcare, detail how to target and reduce unnecessary and inappropriate ED use. You'll get details on initiatives and interventions for decreasing non-urgent ED use, mining data to target high-utilization, high-cost individuals, implementing an ED case management program, communicating proper ED use to targeted populations and enlisting physicians' support in care redirection and appropriate ED use. Table of Contents Redirecting Care to Appropriate Settings -Types of Care and the Costs of Chronic Illness -Opportunities to Redirect Care to Appropriate Settings -The Role of Referral Agencies and Support Services -Increasing PCP Access To Reduce Emergency Care Visits -Call Centers Serve Multiple Purposes -ED Reductions a Side Effect of Healthy Together! DM Program Goodbye Emergency Room, Hello Primary Medical Care -Defining an Emergency -Profiles of Serial Users and Frequent Fliers -Benefits of Partnerships with Community Organizations, Providers -Communication Via Toolkits, Outreach and Self-Management -Mining Reports to Target High-Utilization, High-Cost Individuals -Case Management That Meets the Client in Their Environment -Motivating Physicians to Help -Removing the Stigma of Case Management -Making All Players Accountable Q&A: Ask the Experts -Determining When Screenings are Billable -ED vs. Urgent Care Facilities -The Advent of ?Minute Clinics? in Retail Space -Case Manager Work Schedules and Case Loads -Models for ED ?At-the-Door? Screening -Making the Case for Urgent Care Centers -Redirecting Patients to Lower Levels of Care -Costs for Running the ?Healthy Together? Program -Dissecting Diabetes Results in ?Healthy Together? Effort -Enlisting Providers? Support for ED Redirection Efforts -Referral Turnaround Times -Responsibilities of the ED Case Manager -Monitoring ED Visits Related to Drug Interactions -Statewide DM and CM Efforts -Future ED Redirection Initiatives -Benchmarks for ED Utilization by Population -Analyzing ED Visits by Type of Coverage -Investigating FQHC-Hospital ED Partnerships Glossary For More Information About the Author
Download or read book Hospital Emergency Departments written by Marcia Crosse and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the estimated 119 million visits to U.S. emergency depts. (ED) in 2006, over 40% were paid for by federally-supported programs -- Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insur. Program. There have been reports of crowded conditions in ED often associated with adverse effects on patient quality of care. In 2003, it was reported that most ED in metropolitan areas experienced some degree of crowding. For ex., two out of every three metropolitan hospitals reported going on ambulance diversion -- asking ambulances to bypass their ED and instead transport patients to other facilities. This report examined three indicators of ED crowding - -ambulance diversion, wait times, and patient boarding -- and factors that contribute to crowding. Illus.
Download or read book Emergency Department Design written by Jon Huddy and published by American College Emergency Physicians. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book from ACEP that will help you participate effectively-or lead the way-in the successful design of your emergency department. Emergency Department Design will teach you the design and planning process so that you and other caregivers can make decisions about what's best for your department. Whether you're building a new department, remodeling an existing one, expanding, or simply adding a new service, the critical decisions you'll make must be based on an understanding of the design process. Time and time again, the best results are achieved when caregivers drive this process, working with design professionals to plan not just for today's patients, but also for those of the future. Read this book and learn how to: Assess your space needs Set physical design goals that meet operational outcomes Define the scope of your project Select a design professional Evaluate the "workability" of proposed design solutions ...and much more. You'll minimize the complexity of the challenge, reduce wasted time, and focus on creating a design that fulfills your vision of how emergency care should be provided. The author is Jon Huddy, AIA, with FreemanWhite, Inc., a nationally renowned architectural firm specializing in emergency department design. Mr. Huddy brings a passion for emergency department design, a commitment to include caregivers in the design process, and an entertaining, energetic presentation style to this book. Michael T. Rapp, MD, JD, FACEP, past president of ACEP, served as editor and contributed his insights in a special introductory chapter, "The Emergency Physician's Perspective." Plus, more than 20 other emergency care professionals and architects have contributed case studies and "pearls and pitfalls" from their own personal experiences with emergency department design projects.
Download or read book Hospital Emergency Departments Health Center Strategies That May Help Reduce Their Use written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput written by John M. Shiver and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country ambulances are turned away from emergency departments (EDs) and patients are waiting hours and sometimes days to be admitted to a hospital room. Hospitals are finding it hard to get specialist physicians to come to treat emergency patients. Our EDs demand a new way of thinking. They are not at a tipping point; they are at a break
Download or read book Emergency Care for Children written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children represent a special challenge for emergency care providers, because they have unique medical needs in comparison to adults. For decades, policy makers and providers have recognized the special needs of children, but the system has been slow to develop an adequate response to their needs. This is in part due to inadequacies within the broader emergency care system. Emergency Care for Children examines the challenges associated with the provision of emergency services to children and families and evaluates progress since the publication of the Institute of Medicine report Emergency Medical Services for Children (1993), the first comprehensive look at pediatric emergency care in the United States. This new book offers an analysis of: • The role of pediatric emergency services as an integrated component of the overall health system. • System-wide pediatric emergency care planning, preparedness, coordination, and funding. • Pediatric training in professional education. • Research in pediatric emergency care. Emergency Care for Children is one of three books in the Future of Emergency Care series. This book will be of particular interest to emergency health care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the pediatric deficiencies within their emergency care systems.
Download or read book Freestanding Ambulatory Care Centers January 1975 Through December 1984 296 Citations from the Health Planning and Administration Database written by Susan Bolda Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of a Community Comprehensive Health Center s Urgent Care Program on Hospital Emergency Department Use written by Terry Pryor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freestanding Emergency Center in Jerusalem evaluations of Its Effects on Adjacent Hospital Emergency Rooms written by Abraham Israeli and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Cost sharing on Emergency Department Use written by Kevin F. O'Grady and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preference for Urgent Care written by Charles S. Schuette and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
