Patient Flow Enewsletter
Volume 1, Issue 6
Thursday, July 15, 2004
In this Issue
:- Webinars: Improving Patient Flow and Reducing ED Crowding: Findings from 10 Hospitals
- Best Practices: East Meets West: How BryanLGH Worked Together to Solve ED Flow Problems
- Site Interview: San Antonio's Efforts to Engage the Community in Improving Health Care
- Perspectives: Walking a Tightrope: Assessing the State of the Safety Net in 10 U.S. Communities
Webinars
Improving Patient Flow and Reducing ED Crowding: Findings from 10 Hospitals
The first webinar was held on July 1, 2004. The audio recording and presentation materials are now available for download.
The second webinar will be held July 22, 2004 from 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern Time. These two webcasts are supported by funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and will be available at no charge.
Best Practices
East Meets West: How BryanLGH Worked Together to Solve ED Flow Problems
Hospital mergers and consolidations have created unique communications challenges for hospitals' administration and staff nationwide. By successfully establishing communication between the Medical Center's two campuses, BryanLGH Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska was able to improve both ED patient flow and campus-wide internal hospital communication between inpatient and ED services. Ms. Ruth Radenslaben, Clinical Director, BryanLGH Medical Center, explained how success was achieved.
Site Interview
San Antonio's Efforts to Engage the Community in Improving Health Care
With rapid population growth coupled with budget cuts, San Antonio is increasingly turning to its business community to help think through its community health care challenges. San Antonio's Mayor, Ed Garza, shared his thoughts on the need to engage local business leaders in health care discussions and how he has been able to engage new groups and motivate elected officials.
Perspectives
Walking a Tightrope: Assessing the State of the Safety Net in 10 U.S. Communities
Urgent Matters recently completed a year-long assessment of 10 emergency departments, to better understand the strain that overcrowded emergency departments put on communities' health care safety nets. Marsha Regenstein, PhD, MCP, assistant research professor in the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and leader of the Urgent Matters site assessment research team, commented on the results, including those that were most surprising.
