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Title	Type	Date
Treating Patients More Quickly with RACE The RACE project introduced a standardized process by which each participating hospital designates a reperfusion and triage strategy for STEMI patients to decrease door-to-balloon times for percutaneous coronary intervention.	Promising practices from the field	08/11/2009
Utilizing a Pediatric Emergency Preparedness Toolkit Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Implemented use of the "Care of Children in the Emergency Department: Guidelines for Preparedness Implementation" toolkit to improve the quality of care provided to children	Promising practices from the field	08/11/2009
Improving Self-Care and Reducing ED Visits Through a Health Ministry Program Delta Regional Medical Center established a Health Ministry Network to serve the health needs of congregational members, particularly those with heart disease and diabetes, better self-manage their care.	Promising practices from the field	08/11/2009
Urgent Matters Urgent Matters aimed to relieve emergency department overcrowding, improve patient care and increase patient satisfaction.	Grant Results Reports	02/24/2009
Emergency Department Nurse Recruitment and Retention A team was assembled to develop an initiative to improve nurse recruitment and retention, including internal and external recruitment strategies, comprehensive training, and a mentoring program for new ED nurses. The goal of this intervention was to improve nurse...	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Reducing Emergency Department Crowding Through the Full Capacity Protocol Stony Brook University Hospital inplemented a Full Capacity Protocol policy, a systemwide policy to better utilize space and staff throughout the hospital rather than allowing admitted patients to accumulate in the ED when the inpatient units lack appropriate beds.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Developing a Patient/Family-Activated Rapid Response Team Staff developed Condition Help, a rapid response team that family members, visitors and patients may call if they feel like they need immediate assistance and are not getting appropriate attention.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Simulating Exercises to Improve a Hospital's Door-to-Balloon Time Staff conducted simulated PCI exercises to improve hospital operations with volunteer "patients" going through every step of the process, from the emergency room door to the catheterization lab.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Decreasing Emergency Department (ED) Throughput Time by Using a Discharge Resource Room Approximately 60 percent of all medical/surgical patients are now discharged from the DRR. The new procedure, which provides an inpatient bed more rapidly, has had a significant effect on decreasing ED throughput time.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Bursting at the Seams: Improving Patient Flow to Help America's Emergency Departments Across America, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are in crisis. For many communities, the local hospital ED has become the linchpin of their health care safety net. With a legal obligation to see patients at all times and with more people than ever seeking their...	Toolkits, Promising practices from publications	06/04/2008

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