ACEP Now

OCTOBER 10, 2024

He completed residency in emergency medicine through Emory while training at Grady Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, Dr. McCormick served as an emergency physician at Northside Hospital. In the Atlanta region, we had AMC, one of the largest hospitals in the region closed. Overburden the other hospital systems.

Telemedicine 105

Telemedicine Critical Access Hospitals Administration 105

EM Literature of Note

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Then, they have another set of work looking at the odds ratios for increased poor outcomes at departments whose “readiness” is in the lowest percentiles, and this work is extrapolated to determine the lives saved. Then, they use these data and salary estimates to come up with the institutional costs of readiness.

Pediatrics 87

Pediatrics Emergency Department Critical Access Outcomes 87

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia closed in 2019, a year and a half after it was acquired along with St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children by private equity (PE) firm Paladin Healthcare Capital for 170 million dollars. Christopher’s was able to find a buyer prior to bankruptcy but Hahnemann could not.

Hospitals 113

Hospitals Radiology Radiology Administration 113

ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. If you have a difficult outcome, it is helpful to know what risk management support you have at your hospital. The past is the past.

Resuscitation 98

Resuscitation Risk Management Hospitals Critical Access 98

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 5, 2021

He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. The primary outcome was good neurologic function defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 0-2 at 90 days. References: * Suzuki et al.

Stroke 52

Stroke Urgent Care Critical Access Outcomes 52

EMDocs

JUNE 22, 2023

As usual, I was the only physician staffing this rural critical access hospital with limited resources which sits 61 miles away from our state’s only Level 1 trauma center. Did I mention that we only had one unit of blood in the hospital for emergent release? It was an ordinary night, and I was asleep in the on-call room.

Resuscitation 96

Resuscitation Ultrasounds Critical Access Radiology 96

RebelEM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Heterogeneity was 0% for the primary outcome, and overall heterogeneity was low for secondary outcomes, which increases external validity. While clinically relevant and heavily debated, the primary outcome is disease-oriented and not patient-oriented. Investigators assessed publication bias depicted as a funnel plot. Air is Air?

Outcomes 52

Outcomes Hospitals Research Critical Access 52