Emergency Medicine
Ensuring Operational Excellence in the Emergency Department
Emergency care today is approaching a breaking point as hospitals experience increasing patient volumes and complexity, declining reimbursement, and overloaded providers. More than emergency medicine staffing, Vituity brings 50 years of evidence-based emergency department solutions, superior quality performance, and the latest innovations to EDs across the nation.
Combining clinical expertise and operational excellence, we serve as an integral part of the team, providing compassionate front-line care and effective leadership. Position your hospital for success.
Timely and Appropriate Patient Care
From the front door through a patient’s journey, we work as a team to reduce care delays and ensure seamless admissions and discharges. From accelerating throughput, increasing capacity, and maintaining staff engagement, Vituity has a track record of improving outcomes and performance metrics from year one.
- Reduced time to provider (TTP)
- Reduced Readmissions
- Increased Satisfaction Scores
Proven ED Innovation
Vituity solutions ensure all patients receive the excellent care they deserve. Our solutions for the ED allow your hospital to benefit from our best practices, customized to meet each department’s unique needs. Some examples include:
- The next revolution in Rapid Medical Evaluation (RME)®—We have evolved our flagship standard for ED throughput to include appropriate and effective care for behavioral health patients with Emergency Psychiatric Interventions (EPI) to minimize boarding and increase capacity.
- Patient-centric solutions - Improves care by stabilizing patients quickly and treating them in the right setting, reducing incidents of restraint and seclusion for agitated patients
- Effectively treating opioid misuse—Provider training and innovations, including Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), allow providers to address addiction as a treatable chronic disease in the ED and as patients transition into the community.
- Technology to extend human care—Custom innovations, including a full suite of telehealth solutions, extend our physicians’ reach to provide timely consultations in the ED—including stroke and psychiatric evaluations.
- Designing a patient-centered experience—Interactive workshops and longitudinal coaching from our Transforming Patient Experience program, as well as patient feedback and callback technology, help providers better connect and build rapport with patients, improving patient and provider satisfaction.
- Performance and quality data reporting—Vituity is a CMS-approved Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) for emergency medicine.
Vituity and ACEP: Advancing Emergency Medicine
Vituity’s emergency room innovations are enhanced by our close connection with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Since inception, Vituity Partners have played leading roles in ACEP, including two national Presidents, more than twenty state chapter Presidents, and leadership roles on several committees and sections. Read more.