This article, which is ultimately about many other things, starts with the author wondering why people bring their kids to the Emergency room rather than to a walk-in clinic.
Solution: have a walk-in clinic right there. In the hospital. Next door to the emergency room. It doesn't have to be part of the hospital administratively, it could be a storefront inside the hospital building (like how there's often a coffee shop and a florist's). Then whenever someone comes into the emergency room with a non-emergency, the triage nurse can just re-direct them to the walk-in clinic, where they'll get treated faster.
2 comments:
Are there 24/7 walk-in clinics? In Mississauga, there are walk-in clinics right near the hospitals, and also "urgent care" facilities that are somwhere between walk-ins and emergency rooms. But only the ER is open 24 hrs.
I don't know, but there should be.
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