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Boston Medical Center

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Boston Medical Center worked with the bed cleaning contractors at the hospital to reduce the bed turnaround time.

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

The mandatory bed huddle sessions include team members from throughout the hospital, including Emergency Department (ED) personnel, senior hospital administrators, in-patient nursing supervisors, and housekeeping staff.

Grady Health System

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Related websites Urgent Matters Web site Patients with specific diagnoses, including chest pain, heart failure, asthma, hyperglycemia, are admitted to a seven-bed Care Management Unit (CMU) directly from the emergency department (ED). Placing patien ...

Lehigh Valley Hosptial

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Related websites Urgent Matters Web site TeleTracking is a bed tracking technology that allows a patient logistics coordinator to monitor all hospital beds from a central command center in order to maximize patient flow and reduce patient wait times ...

Charted Door-to-Bed Process Flow Chart

February 4, 2011 | Toolkit

St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis improved door to bed, length of stay and patient satisfaction by reducing delays in ED triage and registration.

Mid-Track Process Flow Chart

February 4, 2011 | Toolkit

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center expedited the care of the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) III patients by effectuating a reduction left without being seen rates and overall time to provider.

John Muir Medical Center

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Related websites Urgent Matters Web site John Muir Medical Center made several changes to its triage process in order to accelerate ED intake. These changes focused on three initiatives: direct-to-bed, mini-triage and mini-registration. These initia ...

William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak Campus

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Related websites Urgent Matters Web site Instead of sending patients to the waiting room following triage, patients are sent to one of three treatment areas under the straight-back triage policy. Sending patients to the treatment area sends a visual ...

University of Colorado Hospital

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Patients are given a medical screening exam when they arrive at the emergency department (ED) and assigned a level of urgency based on their symptoms.

Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN

September 1, 2006 | Toolkit

Related websites Urgent Matters Web site The hospital implemented a multi-pronged approach for reducing the left without being seen (LWBS) rate and overall patient throughput. The hospital identified the causes of LWBS with a patient survey and then ...

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