WHAT:
Montefiore Medical Center is officially inaugurating expanded “Fast Track” Emergency Room services in newly-constructed facilities at its Weiler/Einstein Division. The services will now be available in what is believed to be the first 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week Fast Track program in the city. Fast Track is for patients who typically require less urgent care, such as a mother coming to the emergency room in the middle of the night with a child suffering from a severe ear ache. Instead of having to wait until all more serious cases, such as heart attacks and major injuries, are dealt with first, now that patient will be able to receive treatment in an expedited manner in a separate ER suite of exam rooms, with a dedicated staff, expressly for that purpose.

The Weiler/Einstein Division’s new Emergency Room opened on a full time basis in 1998, seeing 26,000 patients that first year of operation. In 2003 that number rose to 45, 000 people treated. Patients requiring “Fast Track” services had been averaging 25 per day under the old half-day system with half the number of exam rooms. Administrators anticipate that number to double with the expanded facilities and services.

WHEN:
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
12-Noon

WHERE:
Montefiore Medical Center
Weiler/Einstein Division
1825 Eastchester Road
(Morris Park Section)
Bronx, New York

WHO:
Spencer Foreman, MD, president, Montefiore Medical Center

James T. Goodrich, MD

Director, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery,
CHAM

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