Primary Children's Medical Center
September 1, 2006 | Toolkit
In order to better coordinate patient care within the emergency department (ED), two patient care teams were created.
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Valley Hosptial Medical Center
September 1, 2006 | Toolkit
Related websites Urgent Matters Web site The mission of EM Xpress is to eliminate ambulance gridlock at hospitals by speeding patient offloads. Borrowing from a car racing model, EM Xpress uses “pit crews” to expedite the transfer of patient care be ...
New Program Launched to Help Emergency Departments Relieve Crowding, Improve Health Care Delivery
September 23, 2002 | News Release
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched a new program, Urgent Matters. The $4.6 million program is designed to reduce emergency department crowding and to assess the condition of the health care safety net.
911! Computer Lets Emergency Squads Access Callers' Health Data
May 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, funded the expansion of Project OPEN (Older Persons' Emergency Response Network).
Emergency Care at Fingertips of Elderly in Rural Arizona
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
During 1994 and 1995, staff at Verde Valley Caregivers Coalition in Sedona, Ariz., expanded a volunteer-run caregiver's coalition to serve more elderly people in the Sedona, Ariz., area, and expand its geographic reach.
Safety Net Hospital Emergency Departments
May 7, 2008 | News Release
This issue brief released by the Center for Studying Health System Change focuses on hospital EDs that are faced with patients seeking care for non-urgent issues that could be treated in alternative settings such as physician offices.
Frequent Emergency Deptartment Users are Not Abusers, Study Finds
March 29, 2006 | News Release
Recommended Reading Why Do Parents Bring Children to the Emergency Department for Nonurgent Conditions? Does Lack of a Usual Source of Care or Health Insurance Increase the Likelihood of an Emergency Department Visit?: Results of a National Populati ...
Evaluating an Intervention to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Services
November 13, 2012 | Program Result
From November 2010 through March 2012, the California Quality Collaborative (CQC) conducted an evaluation of its regional improvement effort aimed at reducing unnecessary services and engaging physicians in improving efficiency of resource use.
Following the Leader
February 1, 2011 | Report
Urgent Matters Learning Network II final report shares case studies, results, success and lessons learned.
Lessons from Boston: Providing Trauma Care
April 26, 2013 | Story
An RWJF Clinical Scholar shares lessons from the Brigham and Women’s ER on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing.