Survival Tactics for Emergency Department Boarding
A few statistics that help to frame our hospital capacity crisis today: Immediately following World War II,…
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Survival Tactics for Emergency Department Boarding
A few statistics that help to frame our hospital capacity crisis today: Immediately following World War II,... -
Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department
The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and is... -
A Behavioral Health Intake-Process Model
Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), in Lancaster, Pa., has long had a reputation for an efficient, busy, community...
Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department
The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and is…
A Behavioral Health Intake-Process Model
Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), in Lancaster, Pa., has long had a reputation for an efficient, busy, community…
The Hospital Geographic Zone Debate Pendulum Is Swinging Back
There is a debate going on in the inpatient world among hospitalists, bed management and other hospital…
Strategies To Help Your ED Adapt to Variable Volumes and Patient Needs
One of the unforeseen changes to emergency medicine in the peri-pandemic era is the extreme variation in…
Hospital-Wide Strategies for Reducing Inpatient Discharge Delays and Boarding
Many emergency departments got a brief reprieve from boarding during the COVID-19 pandemic, but most are seeing…
ED’s Shift To Physician-in-Triage Enabled Fast Assessment, Treatment
The leadership team in the Tennity Emergency Department at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, was struggling…
Help Prevent Coronavirus Spread by Reevaluating ED Flow
Editors’ Note: This article was accepted on May 2, 2020, and was accurate at that time. Because…
Pennsylvania ED Re-Engineers Patient Flow to Reduce Boarding Burden
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) was the nation’s first teaching hospital at the nation’s…
How Did University Hospital in San Antonio Reduce ED Boarding?
It is well-recognized that delays in inpatient discharges result in ED boarding of admitted patients. Boarding has…