McCall Memorial Hospital District Funding
Emergency Department
FY2017 – $664,065
FY2018 – $674,387
FY2019 – $702,000
Funding Impact
- Offset negative cash flow for physician expenses due to implementation of new electronic medical record EPIC.
- Due to increased emergency department visit increases we implemented a new model for emergency department physicians.
- Designated emergency department physicians
- Physicians onsite 24/7 (discontinued emergency department on call model)
Patient Care Impact
- Reduce emergency department patient wait times
- Goal is for patients to see the physician less than 20 minutes after arriving in the emergency department.
- Improved emergency department patient satisfaction and likelihood to recommend survey scores conducted by Press Gainey.
- Consistently ranking in the top 80 percentile or greater when compared to other emergency department survey scores conducted by Press Gainey.
Note: FY17 wait time data is from Feb to Sept 2017. Data collection began after EPIC (electronic medical record) implementation
