Patient Flow Improvements to Boost Efficiency in Small Emergency Departments
The emergency department at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, wanted to take its operational performance…
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Patient Flow Improvements to Boost Efficiency in Small Emergency Departments
The emergency department at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, wanted to take its operational performance... -
Miriam Hospital’s FAST FORWARD>> Program Regains Lost Patient Flow Efficiencies
The Miriam Hospital is a 247-bed community hospital affiliated with the Warren Alpert School Medical School of... -
Intermountain Medical Center in Utah Improves Efficiency, Performance with Vertical Flow Model
Intermountain Medical Center, flagship hospital of the health system by the same name, sits nestled along the...
Miriam Hospital’s FAST FORWARD>> Program Regains Lost Patient Flow Efficiencies
The Miriam Hospital is a 247-bed community hospital affiliated with the Warren Alpert School Medical School of…
Intermountain Medical Center in Utah Improves Efficiency, Performance with Vertical Flow Model
Intermountain Medical Center, flagship hospital of the health system by the same name, sits nestled along the…
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…
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…