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Nov 18, 2008 03:17 PM

Largest ED in the US


My boyfriend and I were having a discussion and we were wondering what the largest ED is in the US.

Thanks!

Teresa


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from traumaRUs
Old Nov 18, 2008, 03:50 PM

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Largest or busiest? I worked in a 42 bed ER that saw 90,000 visits/year. They are currently expanding to 79 beds!

I know Parkland Hospital in TX is very busy.
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from TeresaEDRN
Old Nov 18, 2008, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TeresaEDRN View Post
My boyfriend and I were having a discussion and we were wondering what the largest ED is in the US.

Thanks!

Teresa
Wow! That's a busy ED. We were wondering about the largest. We work in a 104 bed ed (including 20 peds beds) Thanks for the fast reply.

Thanks!
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Old Nov 18, 2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TeresaEDRN View Post
Wow! That's a busy ED. We were wondering about the largest. We work in a 104 bed ed (including 20 peds beds) Thanks for the fast reply.

Thanks!
104 ER BEDS??? OMG--what city?? I would hate to do that schedualing---how many nurses and docs do you staff in a 12 hour shift?
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from TeresaEDRN
Old Nov 18, 2008, 04:40 PM
Updated Nov 18, 2008 at 04:42 PM by TeresaEDRN

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It's in FL. We actually just opened up Sunday night. We went from a 44 bed ed (not including peds) to this huge one. The ratio is 4 to 1 for the nurses, except out trauma/critical care rooms where it's 2 to 1. Each pod contains 20 beds, 5 nurses, 2 techs, a resource nurse, and a transporter. The doc situation is still getting put together. The last 2 nights there have been with 4 to 6 docs, depending on the census. Last night we had 2 docs after 4 am. How does this compare with your ed?

I looked up Parkland in TX. They see almost 400 pts per day! Unreal!
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Old Nov 18, 2008, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by TeresaEDRN View Post
It's in FL. We actually just opened up Sunday night. We went from a 44 bed ed (not including peds) to this huge one. The ratio is 4 to 1 for the nurses, except out trauma/critical care rooms where it's 2 to 1. Each pod contains 20 beds, 5 nurses, 2 techs, a resource nurse, and a transporter. The doc situation is still getting put together. The last 2 nights there have been with 4 to 6 docs, depending on the census. Last night we had 2 docs after 4 am. How does this compare with your ed?

I looked up Parkland in TX. They see almost 400 pts per day! Unreal!
Our "rural" ED--8 beds+2 trauma rooms-1 Doc. 2 RNs and during the day 11a-11p 1 tech!!!

We had 100pts come through in a 24hr shift once and our admin was high fiving the staff!!! LOL

Dont get me wrong--I do love the rural setting, heck we have seen some of the same pts so many times we can basically assess them by thier name alone!!----"Umm Mary, Bill is back"
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from TeresaEDRN
Old Nov 18, 2008, 05:15 PM

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lol. That's funny.
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from MIA-RN
Old Nov 18, 2008, 08:23 PM

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I havent counted the beds exactly, but where I work its around 90+ adult beds, not including peds, which is maybe 40--dedicated to peds only, with its own staff of peds nurses and providers.
We see over 95K visits a year, and are a regional trauma center.
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from Reno1978
Old Nov 18, 2008, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by traumaRUs View Post
Largest or busiest? I worked in a 42 bed ER that saw 90,000 visits/year. They are currently expanding to 79 beds!

I know Parkland Hospital in TX is very busy.
Wow, that's busy! We had 64000 visits in our ED last year and I think we have more than 42 beds down there.
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from mandasueRN
Old Nov 18, 2008, 10:50 PM

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I worked at a 110 bed level I ED in Georgia that sees 120,000 patients a year. They say they are the busiest ED east of the Mississippi River.
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