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A 5 page paper assessing 5 Internet sources discussing aspects of improving patient care while striving to make ER operation more efficient. The paper discusses a Texas effort to transfer Medicare patients from rural to urban hospitals; the use of software to track patients’ progress through the ER; and the use of “product” process flow to achieve Total Quality Management (TQM) principles of increased quality with simultaneous increased efficiency. MLA-style bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShospERorg.rtf
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the information available online discussing emergency room (ER) organization and administration is trained on what services individual hospitals offer and how many healthcare professionals can be found within the ER
at any given time. Though the situation has changed dramatically over the past decade, business process - at least outside of the business office - historically has not been
of great concern to healthcare facilities. Tightening budgets; rising insurance premiums and other costs; the influence of managed care; changes in Medicare; and other considerations have combined to greatly
change the face of ER, however. Its primary purpose remains unchanged, but research indicates that administration professionals are placing greater attention to organization for greater efficiency. Online Reference Review
The Internet presents a wealth of uncategorized facts and opinions, of course. A basic search for information available online reveals relatively few
webpages discussing ER organization, but representing a rather wide range of topics nevertheless. One topic that appears to be of interest is that of using the rural hospital ER
as a "feed" for larger and better equipped hospitals in nearby cities. The Texas Medical Foundation undertook a quality improvement initiative in 1997
designed to study and improve the process of receiving Medicare patients experiencing acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and then transferring them to other hospitals for further care (Emergency Room Rural Acute
Myocardial Infarction Project). The twelve participating rural hospitals received the patients, initiated response measures, sought to stabilize them and then transferred the patients to a major urban hospital where
they received complete care and were admitted only into the urban hospital. The result of this effort was that the receiving rural hospitals
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