Boone Hospital Center unveiled an expanded emergency department Tuesday morning. The $1.8 million renovation adds four new patient rooms to the ER, giving it a total of 16 rooms, plus a new nurse's station and triage area. The addition is designed to provide a better experience for patients who come to the Ann Street entrance with anything from a bloody nose to a heart attack.
Traditionally, staff members have relayed information about patients through verbal communication, paper charts and visual tools such as white boards. But as both hospitalwide clinical information systems and specialized emergency department information systems (EDIS) have grown more sophisticated, many hospitals are replacing the white boards and paper charts with automated tracking systems and computer displays. Some systems not only give up-to-the-second information on patient status and location, but also track workflow measures such as time to triage, which EDs can use to provide feedback to clinicians. Planning a move to a much larger space was the impetus for the emergency department at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, VA, to switch from paper records to an emer...
SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake Saint Louis has hired Dr. David Lickerman as the medical director of its emergency department. The hospital also hired Robert "Arlen" Blaylock as the department's clinical director. Lickerman previously practiced emergency medicine since July 2005 at St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield. Prior to that he spend 26 years at Christian Hospitals NE-NW in St. Louis, serving as associate director of emergency of medical services from 1995 to 2005.
Excela Health Frick Hospital's emergency room was temporary closed to incoming patients on Saturday night after thousands of gallons of liquid oxygen were released outside the Mt. Pleasant facility. The hospital issued a Code Black after the valve on one of the hospital's oxygen tanks malfunctioned about 11:50 p.m. Authorities were able to seal the leak, and no patients were evacuated.
The Methodist University Hospital emergency room was one crowded and busy place Saturday evening, as patients waited an average of up to 52 minutes to see a health care provider. But for anyone seeking emergency-room help, there were better options available - and within the Methodist system. At Methodist North, the average wait was just 14 minutes, and at Le Bonheur Methodist Germantown, it was a mere seven minutes.
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