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During its annual May observance of National Nurses Week, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System awarded four nurses with local and network VA Secretary Awards for Excellence in Nursing. Also during the event, one nurse among the 100 nominees, received the prestigious 2012 DAISY Award, and Janet D. Allan, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, delivered the keynote address on the future of nursing. Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) May 25, 2012 During its...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamHealth, one of the largest providers of outsourced physician staffing solutions for hospitals, has entered into a joint marketing agreement with InQuicker, LLC, providers of the nation's first healthcare Online Waiting Room(TM), which allows patients the ability to skip the waiting room at emergency departments and urgent care centers nationwide. Through this arrangement, TeamHealth and InQuicker will jointly market a uniquely...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, David Seaberg, MD, FACEP, today issued a statement in response to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding emergency department use among adults aged 18 to 64 in 2011. The report focuses on a subset of the least sick and injured patients; it does not include the elderly, children or patients admitted to the hospital from the...

SEATTLE, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hours, or even minutes, can mean the difference between life and death when someone is having a stroke. As part of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week from May 20-26, stroke survivors from King County will share their stories about how quick recognition of stroke symptoms and timely response and treatment through King County EMS helps patients survive and return to full health. Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the United States,...

A Henry Ford Hospital study found that simulation training improved the critical decision-making skills of medical residents performing actual resuscitations in the Emergency Department. Researchers say the residents performed better in four key skill areas after receiving the simulation training: leadership, problem solving, situational awareness and communication. Their overall performance also sharpened. While many studies have shown the benefits of simulation training for honing the...

Findings reveal racial disparities in pre-hospital care for nation's leading killer Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be presented by a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the annual meeting of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The researchers also found that black...

In 2009, children with public insurance were three times more likely and children with no insurance were eleven time more likely not to have a primary care physician, compared with children with private insurance. Without a primary care physician, the Emergency Department (ED) often becomes the primary point of contact for treatments and diagnoses. A new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics reports that children with private, public, and no insurance may receive...

Findings Could Deliver Better Care, Reduced Costs, Shorter Waits PRINCETON, N.J., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the use of hospital emergency departments grows across New Jersey, a new project from the New Jersey Hospital Association examines the problem of individuals using the ED for non-emergency care. More than one-third of ED use is for non-emergency primary care conditions that could be treated more appropriately - and more affordably - in a doctor's office or...

THORNTON, Colo., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- North Suburban Medical Center's Northeast ER opens its doors today at the corner of Holly Street and 128th Avenue to receive emergency patients from the surrounding communities. The 10,000-foot, state-of- the-art emergency department will function just like a hospital-based ER, treating everything from minor injuries to more severe and life-threatening illnesses such as stroke or heart attack. Northeast ER is a true emergency facility,...

WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients having psychiatric emergencies wait 11.5 hours in the emergency department, and those who are older, uninsured or intoxicated wait even longer, according to a study published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Patient and Practice-Related Determinants of Emergency Department Length of Stay for Patients with Psychiatric Illness" http://bit.ly/IjQBbg). Overall, these patients wait approximately 42 percent...