title: ED gets patients upstairs in 60 minutes or less.
abstract: The ED at Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ, reduced admission cycle times from 3 1/2 to four hours to less than 60 minutes. Although nursing staff members are encouraged to resolve problems on their own, the "czarina of bed control" serves as a point person in the ED to resolve significant problems. A housekeeping staff member is assigned to clean the beds on each unit in order of priority. ED staff have access to real-time information about patients being discharged from the floors.
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009515:New Jersey; D010343:Patient Admission; D010351:Patient Discharge; D013996:Time and Motion Studies