Rhode Island Hospital ED Boosts Efficiency by Adopting Brown University Patient Flow Model
The Rhode Island Hospital emergency department in Providence was built 10 years ago and is one of…
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
Fort Worth Hospital Uses Innovation and Teamwork to Drive a Wildly Successful Emergency Department
The emergency department at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth is a different breed of…
Physician Staffing Model at Texas Health ED Helps Maintain Top Clinical, Operational Metrics
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth is part of a 25-hospital system and one of the…
AIDET: A Popular Way of Improving Patients’ Care Experience
A number of communication strategies have evolved over the past decade to improve the patient encounter and…
Segmentation Improves Emergency Department Patient Flow at Raritan Bay Medical Center
Once upon a time, the emergency department was a single treatment room in the basement of a…
Emergency Department Efficiency Starts with Individual Performance
In this column, we will look at making the department efficient at the micro level by optimizing…
Emergency Department Patient Flow Change Brings Better Metrics, More Satisfaction
A group of 200 emergency department leaders (medical directors, nurse managers, and executives) met Feb. 24–26 in…
Emergency Department Benchmarking Trend Data Help Physicians Anticipate Operational Management Needs
Do you know the national utilization trends for emergency department services? Do you know what you will…
Emergency Department Usage Trend Data Can Help Physicians Prepare for Patients
Do you have a sense for the national utilization trends for ED services? Do you know who…
SuperTrack Approach to Patient Segmentation Aids Emergency Departments
For emergency departments seeing medium to high volumes of patients, the concept of patient segmentation is becoming…