The Summer Emergency Room Visit

The hospital emergency department delivers a service designed to care for individuals with acute undesired symptoms.  The manifested symptoms are typically new to the patient and scary for the family.  Persons going to the emergency room want to see a medical doctor as soon as possible.

The national average amount of time for a patient entering the emergency room and being assessed by a medical doctor is about 37 minutes.  Local community hospitals will try to adjust the system and staffing levels to cause the physician evaluation to take place sooner.

The national average amount of time for a person seen in the emergency room to be admitted to the hospital is about 4 and one half hours. This can be compared to the national average amount of time an emergency department patient is seen (about 2 and one half hours) before being discharged.

The national average amount of time for a person seen in the emergency room to be transferred to another facility is about 4 hours.   So the national average of median time from emergency room arrival to admission (279 minutes) is clearly taking longer than documented discharges or transfers. 

These values are called a measure of through put.  The values clearly indicate a lengthy time consuming assessment is being employed to document the evidence needed to demonstrate the need for a hospital admission.  Having the patient population meet the criteria required to admit to the hospital setting helps manage the risk of a readmission.  The staff of Home Care Path are sincerely thankful for the service performed in our hospital emergency rooms.

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