‘Urgent care attached to hospital’: Florida hospital opens fast track ED

Becker's Healthcare March 13, 2024
Erica Carbajal

West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton, Fla., has opened a “fast-track” emergency department facility steps away from its main ED, where patients with less severe medical needs can be treated more efficiently.

The fast-track ED includes seven treatment bays with recliners for patients who can remain vertical. It’s staffed with nurses and medical technicians, and it is meant to ease ED overcrowding. Hospital officials described the space as an “urgent care facility attached to a hospital.”

“In a split-flow model, to have patients with less significant complaints and injuries, brought over to an area where they can be...

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