ACEP Now
OCTOBER 30, 2024
We don’t incentivize experience in our systems and our laws – both the provider’s experience as well as the patient’s experience, so when it comes to hospital boarding, it falls right in line with that. Another is to deliver the best patient care you possibly can, and those things don’t work very well together.
ACEP Now
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets. DR. PECK: Right here in Indiana and District 9, I have several critical access hospitals that are part of the consolidation effort of other systems.
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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. You are well prepared for this. Lead your room well. If the resuscitation does not go as well as you wanted, learn from it and move on.
EMDocs
DECEMBER 4, 2023
However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. The Wells’ Criteria for DVT can help risk stratify [2,3]. If the patient’s Wells score is ≤ 0, DVT is nearly clinically excluded and no further immediate lab or ultrasound is necessary.
ACEP Now
AUGUST 1, 2023
Colleagues at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have developed a robust telehealth network with over 25 critical access hospitals in that state. A rural ED staffed by a well-trained EP is an essential resource in small communities that may be otherwise lacking in readily available healthcare resources.
ACEP Now
AUGUST 22, 2023
In an environment in which patients may have their entire work-up in the waiting room, or attend a critical access hospital staffed by non-emergency physicians, or lack the financial support to follow up with an appropriate specialist, a pragmatic approach to care is required.
ACEP Now
MARCH 12, 2024
Drivers and crews spend months at a time on the road and they travel through rural areas, where only critical access hospitals may be nearby. Temperatures inside the cars on the track can reach 120 degrees, so heat-related illness prevention and wellness checks are a regular part of the job.
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