SHORTENING THE WAIT IN ER (MEDICAL EMERGENCY)

Shortening the wait in ER (Medical Emergency)



Shortening the wait in ER (Medical Emergency)

Emergency room waits are down in some hospitals in Massachusetts are preparing to comply with a new state policy, such as New Year's Day, prohibits ERS flooded to divert ambulances.

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Since state officials of Public Health decided last summer to stop the closure of the FRC, a practice called "slamming", the hospital has taken aggressive steps to accelerate the flow of patients through their emergency services, including hiring more nurses and doctors.

Crowded emergency rooms are often caused by backups on hospital floors, so that hospitals are finding ways to discharge patients more quickly. Tufts Medical Center will require phlebotomists to draw blood from patients earlier in the morning on the tests, and some hospitals plan to suspend graduate education and lectures for doctors are urgently needed to move the patient.

Even before the regulations come into force, these and other changes are causing significant declines in the number of ERS hours are temporarily closed to ambulances. Statewide, hospitals are on diversion hours in 7963 to November of this year compared to 11,605 hours for the same period in 2007. And last month, ERS is open for only 232 hours, less than a quarter as often as the beginning of the year.

Physicians and others predict the new system is better for patients, who can currently be sent to hospitals that do not have their medical records and that their regular doctor does not work.

"Patients want to go where they have a history," said Richard Serino, chief of Emergency Medical Services in Boston. "Family members will take their frustration out on the teams."

There were even stories of disgruntled patients out of the ambulance to hospital near their ...