Research Paper on:
Organization and Administration of an Emergency Room

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the information available online discussing emergency room (ER) organization and administration is trained on what services individual hospitals offer and how many healthcare professionals can be found within the ER  at any given time. Though the situation has changed dramatically over the past decade, business process - at least outside of the business office - historically has not been  of great concern to healthcare facilities. Tightening budgets; rising insurance premiums and other costs; the influence of managed care; changes in Medicare; and other considerations have combined to greatly  change the face of ER, however. Its primary purpose remains unchanged, but research indicates that administration professionals are placing greater attention to organization for greater efficiency. Online Reference Review  The Internet presents a wealth of uncategorized facts and opinions, of course. A basic search for information available online reveals relatively few  webpages discussing ER organization, but representing a rather wide range of topics nevertheless. One topic that appears to be of interest is that of using the rural hospital ER  as a "feed" for larger and better equipped hospitals in nearby cities. The Texas Medical Foundation undertook a quality improvement initiative in 1997  designed to study and improve the process of receiving Medicare patients experiencing acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and then transferring them to other hospitals for further care (Emergency Room Rural Acute  Myocardial Infarction Project). The twelve participating rural hospitals received the patients, initiated response measures, sought to stabilize them and then transferred the patients to a major urban hospital where  they received complete care and were admitted only into the urban hospital. The result of this effort was that the receiving rural hospitals