ED's turnaround time cut by almost 30 minutes.
A proactive team approach to "pulling" patients from the waiting room has cut 25 minutes off the average turnaround time in the ED at the Scottish Rite campus of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta system. Once assigned an acuity level, the patient is pulled back into a room and met by a nurse/physician team. A computerized board and internal phone system allow team members to coordinate their arrival in the patient's room. A flexible group of three 17-bed "pods" are opened and closed, depending on the census.
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