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Fri Mar 2 20:40:42 GMT 2007

I have no problem with someone going to the waiting room.  Just hopping a
ride on the ambulance doesn't guarantee you a bed - especially if it's
nonemergent.  Has your EMS met with the hospital kings and queens to
discuss how their inability to disgorge the admitted patients is causing
delay in EMS response?  Don't put it on the ED.  They'd be moving the
patients if they could.  Might as well start with the CEOs, COOs and CNOs.

Bif Fink, RN, MSN

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Re moving admitted patients to ward hallways instead of ER hallways:
I think this is a great idea, though I would also suggest that EMS should
be
permitted to leave stable patients in the ER waiting room rather than
having
to remain with them until an ER bed is available for them, as is the
current
situation. We recently had 2 operative ambulances serving a city of one
million people, as every single other EMS crew was sitting in ER waiting to
transfer their patients, and the ER was full of admitted patients waiting
to
go to the floor (and the wards were full of people waiting for placement,
and the beat goes on...)
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