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		<title>Redesigned ER with reduced wait times can save lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Emergency Room incident at King&#8217;s County hospital
The King&#8217;s county hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. has several claims to fame; It was the site of the first open-heart surgery performed in New York State; Kings County physicians invented the world&#8217;s first hemodialysis machine, conducted the first studies of HIV infection in women and produced the first human [...]
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British Healthcare system
The  National Health System(NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in the UK. The NHS provides the majority of healthcare in England, including primary care (such as general practitioners), in-patient care and long-term healthcare. NHS hospitals are increasingly competing with other private health systems and facing financial difficulties.
 Lean applied in Birmingham [...]
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		<title>Zero Diversions in the ED is possible!!!</title>
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Diversion Dilema
With over 65% of America&#8217;s Emergency Departments reporting capacity issues, diverting ambulances has become common place.  &#8220;To divert or not to divert?&#8221; is the questions often facing managers and administrators.  Let us examine some quick facts.

According to the AHA in 2007, over 56% of Urban hospitals reported diversions in 2007 (above)
Lack of staffed Critical care beds was [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[Macro Trends in Emergency Care
According to the Center for Disease Control, the number of ED visits increased from about 96.5 million to 115.3 million in the United States from 1995 to 2005. This amounts to a sharp 20% increase. While this happened, the number of  EDs themselves dropped from 4,176 to 3,795.  With 219 ED visits [...]
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