Category: Care Coordination

West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton, Fla., has opened a “fast-track” emergency department facility steps away from its main ED, where patients with less severe medical needs can be treated more efficiently. 

M Health Fairview St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood, Minn., is reducing emergency department boarding with modular units that expand its ED footprint, allowing more patients to be seen.

More patients are being transferred out of Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s emergency room as the hospital closes down services, Politico reported March 13.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is combining the clinical departments and academic programs from its Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital into single departments. Both hospitals are based in Boston. 

Baltimore-based MedStar Harbor Hospital locked down for a few hours following a shooting in the parking lot, NBC affiliate WBAL-TV reported March 11.

MetroHealth has cut the median time to surgery for patients with acute spinal cord injuries to 7.63 hours — 14.44 hours faster than the median national average, one of its leaders told Becker’s.

Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, Ill., has regained its level 2 trauma center designation after losing it on Feb. 2.

Madison, Wis.-based UnityPoint Health Meriter Hospital has reduced wait times in the emergency department for patients with the implementation of a new admissions unit, a UnityPoint Health spokesperson told Becker’s.

UPMC’s Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Highly Specialized Therapies in Palermo, Italy, has completed its 3,000th organ transplant.

The Hawaii Health Department implemented security and patient changes to the State Operated Specialized Residential Program and Hawaii State Hospital facilities following the death of a nurse.