The employee shall support the Organization's strategic plan and the goals and direction of the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). It is expected that the employee demonstrate behavior consistent with the Core Values. This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the Mission of the Organization. This position requires providing service to a one or more age populations including an ill neonate through geriatric patient population in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individual served. Provides technical nursing care and interventions to designated patient populations. Josephs is consistently chosen as the most preferred hospital by local consumers.Īssesses patient/family health problems and resources, takes a leadership role in the development, implementation and outcomes evaluation of a plan for nursing care provided by the nursing team. Nationally recognized as a quality lead St. This is the recommendation of a multidisciplinary performance improvement team to address out long length of stay for Observation status patients, and the need to expedite patient discharges to accommodate the needs of the Emergency Department. Josephs is the largest hospital as well as the largest private employer in Stockton California. The Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) is a six bed unit for selected Observation status patients. Specializing in cardiovascular care comprehensive cancer services and women and childrens services including neonatal intensive care. Josephs Medical Center was founded in 1899 under the direction of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael is a not for profit fully accredited regional hospital with 395 beds a physician staff of over 400 and more than 2400 employees. The word dignity perfectly defines what our organization stands for showing respect for all people by providing excellent care. Josephs Medical Center is a member of Dignity Health. © 2018 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine.St. The substantial improvements in ambulance ramping and escalations also indicated that the department was able to cope better with periods of high activity.Įfficiency emergency medicine hospital organisational emergency service. In summary, this ED led, consultant run CDU model of care resulted in significantly improved performance on a range of KPIs, including improvement in access block and NEAT figures. The percentage of patients that did not wait and 30 day representations showed a small but statistically significant decrease. Overall there was no change to hospital mortality numbers. Total ambulance ramping time fell by 58% and ambulance service level three escalations fell from 21 to 5 post-CDU implementation. There was a significant improvement in NEAT adherence. Primary outcomes were access block (percentage of patients admitted >8 h), discharge National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) adherence and Queensland Ambulance Service level three escalations.Īfter the implementation of the CDU, access block significantly improved. This present study describes the impact of a new model of care using an ED led, consultant run clinical decision unit (CDU) on performance, using a retrospective analysis of data for 9 month periods before and after the introduction of the CDU model of care. Multiple models of care have been studied in an effort to improve access block and other key performance indicators (KPIs) of ED. ED access block is an ongoing significant problem and has been associated with excess mortality.
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