EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS

 

The United States Census Bureau claims that the number of uninsured Americans rose to nearly 16%, or 47 million people, in 2006. This rise could be attributed to the rising costs of healthcare. As a result, more and more of America's ill are occupying local emergency rooms for their non-emergent ailments. The front door of hospitals has become the emergency room.

According to the American Hospital Association Survey of Hospital Leaders, 2007:

• Nearly 50% of all emergency departments were at or over capacity
• 21% of all emergency departments diverted patients to other hospitals
• 36% of these emergency departments are overcrowded resulting in 9% cancelled surgeries due to understaffing

At Spacesaver, we believe that a more organized and space optimized emergency room would help aid against overcrowding and diversion of patients. The ability to add beds and bring your emergency supplies to the point-of-need would significantly increase the efficiency of the department.

Emergency room situations often require quick thinking and reaction. Your supplies need to be accessible at any given moment. Everything from clean storage, medical equipment storage, to sterile supply storage, and suture storage need to be close at hand.

Spacesaver compact mobile storage and bin storage systems are flexible enough to fit any of your spaces and storage needs. These systems give you the ability to centralize and organize your supply storage with the flexibility to change as your needs and space requirements change.

Learn more about our emergency department solutions!