Healthwise summer/fall 2007 - Citrus Valley Health Foundation

� EMERGENCY CARE PAVILION
The new facility will more than double our capacity by
providing beds for 23 emergency room patients, compared to
the 11 spaces in our current facility. Included among these 23
beds are six closed treatment rooms for patients that require
a quieter environment, or for pediatric patients undergoing
procedures.
The Pavilion also features two isolation rooms for patients
with highly contagious infections, such as SARS and
tuberculosis. Use of the isolation rooms will also help keep
fellow patients – and staff – safe from these infectious
diseases.
The specialty care room, which also has two beds, is for the
highest acuity patients that require care from the entire
health care team. This area has an alcove with all the
equipment needed for more sophisticated procedures, such as
inserting a chest tube or placing a patient on a ventilator.
The remaining 13 emergency room beds (or treatment bays)
will be used for a variety of emergency room cases. These
rooms are not specialized, but a specialty cart brought to the
bedside can turn any treatment bay into a specialized “room.”
The new facility also features a physicians’ dictation and
picture archiving and communications system (PACS) room.
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The Arthur and Sarah Ludwick Emergency Care Pavilion
At A Glance: The Patient Flow System
� Patient arrives in emergency department
� Patient signs in, heads to waiting area
� Patient assessed by triage nurse
� Patient completes paperwork with registration staff;
returns to waiting area
� Patient is called to an emergency room bed
� Patient is examined by physician
� Test and lab work are completed
� Physician informs patient of diagnosis/next steps
� Patient is admitted to hospital, or discharged with
appropriate instructions
Admitting physicians will now have a private place to sit down
and write orders. And our PACS will allow our physicians to
view X-rays from the new emergency room’s computers,
rather than waiting for film delivery from the radiology
department.
A “stat lab” located within the department will be used to
process blood work. Results will be returned in half the time
of the hospital laboratory.
While the aesthetics and technical features of the new
emergency department will provide each patient with
enhanced medical care, the improved patient flow system
introduced in the new center will provide a faster, more
efficient and more comfortable experience for each
emergency department patient.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the
thousands of donors who provided the majority of funding
required to make this new facility a reality. Thanks to
everyone who supported the Arthur and Sarah Ludwick
Emergency Care Pavilion for investing in the health of your
community. We applaud you!
FORMER SYSTEM NEW AND IMPROVED SYSTEM
� Patient arrives in emergency department
� Patient is greeted and escorted to an emergency
room bed
� Patient is triaged at the bedside
� Patient is registered at the bedside
� Patient is examined by the physician
� Patient returns to waiting room (if able) or remains
in an emergency room bed while tests and lab work
are completed
� Patient returns to emergency room bed; physician
informs patient of diagnosis/next steps
� Patient is admitted to hospital, or discharged with
appropriate instructions
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