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NJ-ACEP Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Statehouse, Trenton
A Town Hall Dialogue to Discuss
New Jersey’s Emergency
Departments
End ER Congestion
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Star Ledger Editorial
There have been no mass casualty disasters. Influenza is not
rocking the state. Yet there is an epidemic in New Jersey of
overcrowded emergency rooms and patients "boarded" in the ER
waiting for hospital beds. This at a time when Gov. Jon
Corzine is setting up a commission to determine whether New
Jersey has too many hospital beds.
It may be difficult for patients-in-waiting to believe but
bigger patient care wings and emergency rooms may not solve
their problem.
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N.J. Emergency Rooms are 'Maxed Out'
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
By Bob Groves, Staff Writer, The Bergen Record
TRENTON -- Congested emergency rooms leave hospitals in New
Jersey unprepared to handle the surge of patients that could
accompany a disaster or terrorist attack, a group of
physicians said Tuesday.
To make matters worse, it's not people with routine problems
who are overcrowding emergency departments, they said.
Instead, it's the so-called boarders -- seriously ill
patients who spend hours or even days in hallways waiting
for an available bed, hospital staffers said during a panel
discussion on health care held at Tuesday afternoon at the
State House.
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ER Staff Decry Backlogs that Leave Patients Lingering in
Halls
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
By Carol Ann Campbell, Star-Ledger Staff
Sick people on stretchers line the hallways outside
emergency rooms, some waiting 48 hours to be admitted into
the hospital.
It's not the scenario of a future pandemic. It's happening
now, according to emergency room physicians and nurses who
met yesterday in Trenton to protest the "boarding" of
patients in crowded hospital emergency departments around
the state.
"The overcrowding is thought to be the uninsured and
non-emergencies. But we are talking about sick people, and a
lot of them have insurance," said Ty Hartmann, president of
the New Jersey chapter of the American College of Emergency
Physicians.
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ER Docs Weigh Improvements In New Jersey's Emergency Care
System
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Millennium Radio New Jersey
Are New Jersey E-R's prepared? A group of doctors and others
met at the Statehouse Tuesday to talk about problems within
the State's emergency rooms.
Doctor Ty Hartmann is President of the New Jersey Chapter of
the American College of Emergency Physicians. He says E-R's
in the State have three big issues...patients spending too
much time there, E-R prepardness to deal with disasters, and
the lack of critical care specialists available for the E-R.
Hartmann says of the overcrowding..."you have less space,
less staff and that is what generates long waits for people
to get into an emergency department".
He says a worst-case scenario for Jersey E-R's like an
epidemic would challenge the staff because not only would
they have to deal with sick patients, but also sick staff
members and the families of staff members.
By: Joe Cutter
WBOC News At 7
WBOC-TV CH 16 (CBS) Salisbury
01/31/2007
Starting tomorrow hospital officials say patients will be
treated within 30 minutes of arrival in the ER. Atlantic
general announced today that it is trying to reduce
overcrowding and the number of hours patients wait in the
emergency room.
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News 12 New Jersey
01/30/2007
ER doctors say overcrowding in their departments is a
serious problem in New Jersey. The New Jersey college of
emergency physicians holding a town hall meeting today to
discuss the issue. Last year, New Jersey received a C-Plus
from the national institute of medicine when it comes to
emergency care.
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