Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego’s Unique ED Culture Breeds Innovation
The emergency department (ED) at Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego is a different breed of ED. This…
About Shari Welch, MD, FACEP
Shari Welch, MD, FACEP, is a practicing emergency physician with Utah Emergency Physicians and a research fellow at the Intermountain Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. She has written numerous articles and three books on ED quality, safety, and efficiency. She is a consultant with Quality Matters Consulting, and her expertise is in ED operations.
Posts by Shari Welch, MD, FACEP
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…
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…