Abu Dhabi: Al Rahba Hospital announced that it’s "Door to Doc" or D2D program, an initiative aimed to improve the hospital's patient flow, has drastically reduced emergency department (ED) wait times from 3 hours to less than 1 hour (peak times) in less than five months of implementation. During the same period, doctors in ED attended to up to 15% more patients daily.
Over 90 percent of patients were seen within 1 hour of arrival to the ED and almost 75 percent of the patients were seen within 30 minutes in 2013. Al Rahba Hospital also aims to decrease the 1 hour waiting time further within the next months, ensuring that all emergency patients are seen within 30-45 minutes. Al Rahba Hospital is operated by SEHA and managed by Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHMI).
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