Hospital Tackles The Problem Of Wait Time For Patients
Sharp Chula Vista began electronically tracking its patients in 2013 to find weak spots in its system of transporting patients from point A to point B.
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Chula Vista Hospital Cuts The Wait For Its Patients
[A] team at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center has been using a combination of technology and better planning to significantly shrink the amount of time patients spend sitting around, waiting to move from one place to another. While the effort has not yet solved bed capacity-related emergency room backups, it has managed to get transports started more quickly after they’re requested and to shrink the average amount of time that elapses from departure to destination. (Sisson, 3/18)
In other hospital news —
Ventura County Star:
Hospital Worker Vaccination Rate In County Ranked Among Worst In State
A state report contends Ventura County’s flu vaccination rate for hospital workers ranked among the worst in California for the 2016-17 flu season. According to the report from the California Department of Public Health, 71 percent of the county’s 15,051 health care workers in hospitals — from doctors and nurses to clerks and cafeteria staff members — were vaccinated for the flu last year. Driven by data provided by hospitals, the document listed 55 California counties, excluding three that don’t have acute care hospitals. Only one, Kern County, had a lower vaccination rate than Ventura County for workers that include hospital employees, contracted workers present at the hospital at least one day during flu season and licensed practitioners including physicians. (Kisken, 3/17)