Emergency care
Innovations
A community paramedic works onsite at Harbor Light Shelter, a homeless shelter, during afternoon and evening hours 4 days a week during periods when an onsite primary care clinic is not open. The...
Through a program known as ETHAN (“Emergency Telehealth and Navigation”), the City of Houston Fire Department Emergency Medical Services program uses video and other technology to allow emergency...
Enacted by the California State legislature, the Hospital Fair Pricing Act limits the amount all licensed, general acute-care hospitals (including nonprofit, for-profit, and public hospitals) can...
The Dentists' Partnership in Battle Creek, MI, provides free oral health care to low-income, uninsured individuals in exchange for community service. Approximately 70 percent of the dentists in...
In 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health became the first State to ban ambulance diversions—a practice in which a crowded emergency department temporarily stops accepting patients...
QualityTools
This toolkit can help emergency medical services (EMS) agencies develop and operate Mobile Integrated Healthcare and Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) programs. The toolkit contains samples of forms, documents, and questionnaires that EMS agencies...
This toolkit provides resources and recommendations for reducing inappropriate emergency department (ED) use. It includes key lessons to begin the process of reducing ED use, information on how data can help to identify avoidable ED use, and...
The Prehospital Medical Information System (PreMIS) is a State-mandated, Internet-based emergency medical services (EMS) information system that collects data on each EMS call report made within the States of Mississippi, North Carolina, South...
This guide for emergency department staff and clinicians is intended as a resource to promote recognition and prevention of medical morbidity and mortality associated with eating disorders.
The guide covers the following topics:...
This guide for emergency department (ED) physicians, nurses, and caregivers includes information and tools for providing pain management care to “super users” in the ED. The guide offers an approach to understanding and managing two groups of...
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