Articles Tagged With: throughput
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New Service Accelerates Critical Care Expertise to ED Patients
With ICU-level resources often limited, especially in rural areas, investigators with the University of Vermont Health Network based in Burlington implemented a new service designed to expand the reach of critical care expertise across the health system, which includes a tertiary hospital, two community hospitals, and three critical access hospitals.
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Virtual Rounds Shorten Lengths of Stay
An Arizona facility cut more than 3,000 excess days for a savings of more than $6 million over 10 months.
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Patient Progression Hub Optimizes Throughput, Centralizes Decision-Making
Children’s Mercy in Kansas City aims to leverage an impressive array of artificial intelligence-driven tools, predictive analytics, and other feats of engineering to hone patient flow to new heights of efficiency.
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Internal Process Improvements, Focus on Early Discharges Help Relieve Throughput Pressure
The administrative and clinical leadership in the ED at University Hospital in San Antonio, TX, knew they would need some help from inpatient staff to address all their throughput challenges. But first, ED leaders knew they had to put their own house in order.
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Busy Community Hospital Develops Process to Speed ED Throughput
Some patients are coming to the ED from nearby urgent care centers and physician offices where their care has already begun. ED administrators saw in this group a new opportunity to reduce wait times while also promoting better care integration between different healthcare settings.