Just before the outbreak of the epidemic: this is how the health system dealt with the situation in emergency medicine • In second place: Assaf the doctor • The busiest: Soroka • "Incentives in hospitals"
The entrance to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, in April
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Coco
Which of the emergency rooms excels in terms of shorter waiting and stay times and greater medical and nursing staff?
The emergency room of Ichilov Hospital received the highest score (73) among the major hospitals.
The Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Meir Hospital received the highest score among children in June.
After Ichilov in the ranking Assaf Harofe (68), Sheba (66), Meir (62), Soroka which is also the busiest emergency room (59), Beilinson (58) and closes the list Rambam with a score of 46. The ranking is made by the medical division The Ministry of Health and its framework carry out inspections and ratings of the Ministry of Health on various parameters and refer to 2019. These are hospitals whose emergency departments have more than 90,000 people a year.
The budget plan has about NIS 40 million and the hospitals receive an incentive in accordance with the score they received.
The parameters examined in the program are: shortening the waiting time from arrival to first contact with the treating staff, shortening the waiting time for a decision on hospitalization or discharge, shortening the waiting time for arriving in the ward from the moment of the decision on hospitalization.
Encouragement to staff more doctors and nurses in relation to the number of referrals, staffing by specialist personnel for more hours and more.
Among the medium-sized hospitals (50 to 90 thousand applicants per year), Barzilai (81) leads, followed by Poria (79).
Closing the list are Ein Kerem (52), Haemek and Shaare Zedek (50), in the emergency rooms for children, Meir Hospital (94.73) leads, followed by Rambam (94.1), followed by Kaplan (93), Soroka (82) and Ichilov (82). .
A source in the Ministry of Health explained that "we are incentivizing the hospitals and the goal is for there to be a continuous transfer of data to the Ministry of Health, so that it will be possible to see the load map online and it will be possible to see what happens at each emergency room."
Dr. Yaron Muscat, Director of the Meir Medical Center of the Clalit Group: "In recent years, the Ministry of Health and the Clalit management have repeatedly commended the professional excellence of the staff of the Meir Medical Center's Pediatric Hospital. I am thrilled to receive exciting thank you letters , Indicating that they feel they have received the best professional care. "
Dr. Ehud Rosenblum, director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Unit at Meir Medical Center: "This is human capital that we have been blessed with and that I am proud to head.
We will continue to work in the future to continue to provide the best care for children. "
