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OVERCROWDING

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 02:15

Has anyone come up with an innovative system to deal with ED overcrowding?

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Surge Capacity Platform

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 18:24.

The LIVENGOOD Platform helps with providing care to patients in an overcrowding situation.  It allows for the equipment and supplies found in a room to be provided at the patient's bedside in the hallway, conference room or other temporary site.  Our website is www.livengoodmed.com and we will be exhibiting at the NJENA 2010 Emergency Care Conference in March.

Rodney Berry, Sales Consultant, LIVENGOOD Medical

ED Overcrowding

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 18:47.

One solution which our ED will not implement is to put a second doctor in the ER instead of having one doctor to manage all 19 beds at once.  This delays the initial visit to the bedside, limits time with the patient and instead adds additional testing to cover all the bases, and finally delays reassessment because the single doctor has too many patients to juggle.

And the patients and visitors get frustrated by the length of stay and take their complaints to THE NURSING STAFF.  It is common for visitors and even the patients to follow the nurses around and harrass them because they are tired of waiting. 

It is nothing new that speeding up the throughput process gains beds and eases overcrowding, but I would suppose it would financially hurt the doctors who are paid by the patient instead of by the hour.

Joe, BSN