title: 'Immediate bedding' boosts patient satisfaction at California emergency department.
abstract: For sick or injured patients, the average wait of nearly an hour to see a physician at Good Samaritan Hospital's ED must have seemed like an eternity. But since instituting a practice known as "immediate bedding", unhappy patients have almost disappeared and its patient satisfaction ratings have skyrocketed.
mesh_terms: D001513:Beds / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D002140:California; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D014850:Waiting Lists