Performance Improvement in a High-Volume Emergency Medicine Setting
June 25, 2024
Sharp Grossmont Hospital (SGH) in La Mesa, California, part of Sharp HealthCare, has an emergency department (ED) patient volume of more than 112,000 visits each year. The facility faces many throughput and efficiency issues that are common to high-volume EDs, including capacity challenges, wait times, staffing and workforce issues, flexibility in treating a variety of…