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Volume 4, Issue 4
October/November 2007
Special Focus Issue-Integrating Pre-hospital and Hospital Care

Integrating Pre-hospital and Hospital Care
Best Practices: Speeding Ambulance Offloads and Improving Patient Flow: Valley Hospital's "EM Xpress" Program
Innovations: Avoiding ED Gridlock and Staying Open: A Culture Change at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
Perspectives: Seeing the Glass Half Full: ED-EMS Partnerships Achieve Success in Emergent Care
New Reports: Annals of Emergency Medicine Reports on Crowding and Quality of Care and StatCom's 2007 National Survey on Patient Throughput and Capacity Challenges

Volume 4, Issue 3
July/August 2007
Special Focus Issue-Employee & Patient Satisfaction Affects Patient Flow

Employee & Patient Satisfaction Affects Patient Flow
Best Practices: Improving Patient Satisfaction & Empowering Staff: Sun Healths Build a Bridge" Program
Innovations: Streamlining Care Processes: Reston Hospital Centers No Triage" Program
Perspectives: Employee Satisfaction: Key to Driving Performance Excellence
In the News: The Joint Commission Releases Bulletin on Standard MM 4.10
New Reports: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2005 Emergency Department Summary, AHA Survey of Hospital Leaders, Press Ganey Emergency Department Pulse Report, Commonwealth State Report Card
Announcements: Urgent Matters Team Collaborates with RAND to Assess Emergency Care in Washington, DC

Volume 4, Issue 2
May/June 2007
Special Focus Issue-Putting Kids First

Preparing the Emergency Department for Pediatric Patients
Best Practices: Child-Ready Emergency Departments: Creating Customized Pediatric Facilities, Equipment, and Care
Innovations: Educational Toolkit for Pediatric Emergency Preparedness
Perspectives: Leadership Needed: Hospitals Must Work Together to Improve Pediatric Emergency Care
In the News: ACEP Reports on the Growing Interest in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Newsweek Examines Efforts to Alleviate ED Crowding & CMS Issues a Memorandum on Provision of Emergency Services

Volume 4, Issue 1
February/March 2007
Special Focus Issue-Improving Cardiac Care

A note from the Urgent Matters Director, Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H.
Best Practices: Code Heart: How Hospital Improvements in the ED are Reducing Time to PCI
Innovations: Door-to-Balloon in 90 Minutes: North Carolina's RACE Approach
Perspectives: When Affairs of the Heart Meet ED Crowding: A National Solution for Cardiac Patient Throughput
In the News: New England Journal of Medicine Article on Myocardial Infarction Mortality Rates & the California ED Diversion Project Initial Findings