Emergency Department Throughput Evaluation

Consulting Services | Clinical Operations | Emergency Department Throughput Evaluation

Reduce Wait Times in Your ED.

Emergency departments generate 30-45% of admissions and revenue for hospitals and ancillary services. Community Standards estimate that a typical ED should be able to manage a range of 1,500 to 1,800 visits per hospital bed depending on throughput processes. If you’re not achieving this efficiency…

Here’s how QHR can help.

Best practice service delivery.

Expedited, high-quality service in your ED is vital to your organization’s image. Proper documentation and charge capture are vital to its viability. QHR helps you achieve both, by focusing on four operational and financial processes: revenue enhancement, patient triage, resource utilization and performance monitoring.

QHR’s experts perform an assessment of the situation at your ED. We design a customized action plan to resolve problems, raise performance and meet your goals. We can assist with both short-term consultations and long-term implementation assistance.

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QHR experts address key ED practice management issues, including:

  • Patient flow and safety
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Nurse staffing ratios
  • Physician and nurse documentation
  • Effective ED triage
  • Bed capacity and utilization
  • EMTALA
  • Joint Commission preparedness

Outcomes can include:

  • Improved documentation and charge capture driving reimbursements
  • Changes to the triage process, helping improve patient access to care
  • A common vision establishes best practice service delivery and helps implement improvements
  • Your “decision group” helps sustain the improvements over time

Better access. Better reimbursement.

QHR can help your ED set a higher standard, and support your organization’s mission of efficient service.