Better Care Sooner:the plan to improve emergency care
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| Better Access to Doctors, Nurses, and Other Health Care Professionals (Ross recommendations 4, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 26) |
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| Hire Emergency Room Advisor |  |
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| Set up Collaborative Emergency Centres (CEC) | |
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| Provide same or next day appointment with appropriate health care provider | |
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| Improve availability of health care providers evenings and weekends | |
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| Ensure clot-busting drug is available in ambulances across the province | |
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| Expand role of Paramedics to support home visits for seniors | |
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| Increase use of tele-consult | |
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| Dedicate a fixed-wing aircraft for EHS Lifeflight Service, available 24/7 | |
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| Support mentally ill Nova Scotians through the development of a comprehensive strategy | |
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| Physician Resource Plan | |
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| Streamlined Patient-Centred Emergency Care (Ross recommendations 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22) |
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| Open hospital beds at Halifax Infirmary to improve patient flow | |
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| Open Rapid Assessment Unit at Halifax Infirmary | |
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| Stream emergency patients into special-purpose areas | |
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| Adopt new Emergency Department Standards | |
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| Ensure non-traditional providers are better integrated in the emergency health care system | |
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| Improve communication and care for waiting patients | |
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| Staff Emergency Departments to meet patient needs | |
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| Ensure the majority of admitted patients are in the Emergency Department less than eight hours | |
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| Use IT to track and enhance the patient experience | |
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| Improve patient off load-times from ambulances | |
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| Develop shuttle service for select hospital transfers | |
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| Better coordinate the movement of patients between health facilities | |
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| Improve health outcomes of stroke patients by rerouting to specialized units across province | |
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| Better Care for Seniors, People with Mental Illness, and Others with Complex Needs (Ross recommendations 13, 23, 24, 25) |
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| Emergency Departments will be changed to better meet the needs of seniors | |
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| Hire Nurse Practitioners for nursing homes | |
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| Frail patients over the age of 75 will be assessed using a comprehensive geriatric tool | |
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| Greater Awareness of 811 and 911 (Ross recommendation 18) |
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| Expand 811 service to make appointments with a variety of health care providers | |
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| Launch public awareness campaign to increase understanding of 24/7 emergency health care system | |
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| Funding for Performance and Quality Care (Ross recommendations 1, 2, 3) |
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| Emergency Department Accountability report | |
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| Work with communities to better understand and respond to their needs | |
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| Develop new funding models for the health care system and physicians | |
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| Introduce a new funding model for physicians working in emergency care | |
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