Dignity Ak-Chin Awarded Application
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\ Dignity Health Foundation - East Va/ley Point of Care Ultrasound Emergency Services Page2 Identify the target population that will be served by the Project. (Who will benefit? How many will be served?-ls there a targeted geographic location? CRMC Emergency Department serves more than 70,000 people every year from Chandler, Gilbert, Maricopa, Mesa, Queen Creek, Apache Junction, San Tan ValJey, and the Ak-Chin and Gila River Jndian Communities. Our Level I Trauma Center is one of thirteen in Arizona and has·the ability and resources to care for the most severely injured who are transported here from throughout the state. We have specialized surgeons and teams of support staff to ensure any injured person can be cared for. As the East Valley's busiest Trauma Center, we take pride in our capability and dedication to healing· and helping the community. At least 90% of patients to the Emergency Room (100-150 patients per day) require IV fluids for stabilization. Twenty percent of those (30-50 patients per day) receive peripheral IV lines requiring POCUS visualization. All of our current POCUS units that are used specifically for IV placement are no longer usable so we currently use other POCUS units meant to be used for diagnostic exams. This has led to much longer wait times for patients and inhibiQs the ability .of staff to act quickly when needed. Our Physician Training program trains residents at Dignity Health hospitals in the East Valley that benefit the general public in the surrounding areas. Adding our emergency residents this year increased our staff, enhancing response times, but our equipment needs have not kept pace with these increases. We need to keep up with the growth and capacity of these learners and provide the current technology they will need to use in their own practices in the future. Describe the Project goals and objectives and outline a plan to meet these goals. Project Goal. To provide the East Valley community with state-of-the-art emergency intravenous imaging and diagnostic services. Objectives. Our objectives are the following: 1. Purchase POCUS equipment necessary to provide efficient emergency services. 2. Offer compassionate, expedited care to complex, high acuity patients with comfort and kindness when it is needed without delay. 3. Provide learning opportunities for our Graduate Medical Education Emergency Medicine residents. Implementation Plan Activity R Roles Responsible Purchase equipment, including the POCUS units, VP Operations, Manager of Nursing, accompanying probes, and wheeled delivery carts Emergency Services Install equipment IT Installation Coordinate staff training Manager of Nursing, Emergency Services Develop policies and procedures for use of the new Manager of Nursing, Emergency Services equipment Begin patient treatment Emergency Room staff Continue pSysician education Emergency Medicine faculty le_aders and ' mentors