The area also includes a controlled entry point with a separate route into the hospital and negative airflow – all to ensure non coronavirus related patients never come into to contact with a COVID-19 patient or any related contamination. The forward triage area includes seating for possible patients, with each seat placed six feet away to ensure there is no cross contamination of patients. This week, Rush made changes to the emergency department that include a “forward (preliminary) triage.” This triage is being performed in a tent that’s been raised over the Emergency Department’s ambulance bay, creating an area for testing potential COVID-19 patients in isolation from general ED patients. Dino Rumoro, chairperson of Rush’s Department of Emergency Medicine and acting dean of Rush Medical College. We more than doubled the size of our emergency department in response to potential natural and manmade disasters and have the capacity to increase our beds substantially with a biocontainment unit,” said Dr. “After 9/11, we knew there may be a need for a specialized treatment area for large-scale emergencies.
McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response, it occupies the hospital’s first floor. While no system is perfect, we believe that for the novel coronavirus global pandemic, we can provide great care for our patients while also providing for an environment that reduces risk as much as possible for both our patients and the members of our health care team.”įrom the outset of its design, part of the hospital Tower was intended for use in a large-scale emergency.
We have created unique facilities and have a specially trained staff to address these kinds of outbreaks. “We have prepared for extraordinary events that may put our community at risk. “The Rush University System for Health is a regional and national resource of emergency preparedness,” Lateef said. We anticipate needing this for patient care in the next week.Īs the Medical Center continues to prepare for a sharp increase in patients with COVID-19, that capability is about to be put to use for the first time. This will increase our isolation room capacity by 32, bringing total capacity to 72 beds, which can all be used for COVID-19 patient treatment. We are ready to initiate the next phase of plan - in two hours, we can convert a wing of hospital into a negative pressure ward to accommodate more patients.It can expand to increase throughput to see an additional 100 patients a day (in addition to their usual volume). Phase 1 of the preparedness plan has already been implemented, with rapid triage and screening of potential coronavirus patients in ambulance bays. The Emergency Department can be rapidly converted to enable high-volume screening.The Emergency Department has an entry bay for ambulances that is covered and can be arrayed to further isolate infected patients who are entering for evaluation and treatment.Every ED bed is in its own room with a door, not a curtain, that further isolates each and every patient. The Rush Emergency Department is divided into three 20-bed units - each of which can be isolated with separate air handling.This helps contain any infectious particles in the air in that room. These assets are critical because it means that when the door to the room opens air from the hall moves into the room, not from the room to the hall. The Rush Tower has 40 negative pressure rooms, among the highest in Chicago.The butterfly-shaped bed tower was built to perform specific functions, which are especially important during an outbreak like this. Because of this unique approach to design, construction and staff, Rush has become a critical community resource in the fight against such threats to public health. When Rush University Medical Center opened its hospital Tower in 2012, it was the first Chicago area hospital specifically designed to provide treatment for an outbreak of an infectious disease, such as novel coronavirus disease, or COVID-19. The activation of the surge plan is in line with Rush’s overall preparedness to deal with infectious disease, while able to treat those with other ambulatory needs without co-mingling patients. Recognized by Vizient and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as one of the best and safest hospitals in the country, Rush has demonstrated its commitment to patient safety, public health and the ability to treat the most complex cases in medicine.
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