Hospital Diversion

Movement to the hospital is defined as a positive statement that patients arriving in the ambulance are not accepted by the reception facility.

As of January 1, 2009 ambulance service can only accept transfer requests if hospital emergency department (ED) status is "black code". This means that all patients will be closed due to internal emergencies.

Transportation to hospital - Effectively "closing" the emergency department to local EMS agencies - occur every day in the USA. This is a common case in urban areas with many populations, but relocation is not well known in suburban hospitals and country hospitals. In the spring of 2007, Chris Martin, current executive director of Airlift Northwest, has served as an emergency services executive at the Harbourview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington for 23 years. I remember sitting at the Starbucks coffee shop in the Seattle University area and being with a handful of people looking for brainstorming ideas.

The EMS Association (EMSI) is an EMS committee in the southwestern Pennsylvania province and five counties in Pittsburgh. About December 2000, EMSI changed the definition of the transfer status of the hospital. The number and kind of beds available, the hospital, not the emergency department. Similar transfer classifications are used in other areas. The following is a verbatim excerpt from the program. The annex is the policy of the emergency department of the hospital. The policy took effect on December 12, 2000. This policy creates four color codes (green, yellow, red, black) corresponding to the status of the emergency department. The hospital is responsible for determining its condition in the continuum. EMSI adopts this policy so that patients receive appropriate treatment as soon as possible. This is occasionally problematic during last year's influenza season. Reporting will be done by telephone first

For departmental selective or hospitalized patients, the hospital may not get worse and the hospital should not stay in the hospital to save the bed. Migration to the hospital should not be made based on financial decisions. 3. In several hospitals "Sand tour", overcrowding is an important issue, a "sofa" system has been established, and physicians and nurses have great power to manage the bed. Because the only way to delay discharge is to participate in the rounding of discharge completion, there are cases where the bed cover actually leaves the patient, so some hospitals have told the bedside that RNs will provide "patients in the hospital reception area" You can send.