Excerpts from UVA Health press releases:
Emergency Department is honored as Top Performer [by UVA Health] — exceeding fiscal year targets for “Staff Work Together to Care for You” and “Overall Experience” with an outstanding combined variance of 5.6 points. This achievement highlights their unwavering dedication to providing efficient, compassionate, and collaborative emergency care.
One Year In! UVA Health Children’s Peds ED Nurses Celebrate Growth and Success – Connect
UVA Health Children’s, the #1 children’s hospital in Virginia, is celebrating the first anniversary of its Pediatrics Emergency Department (Peds ED).
“It’s been a busy, busy year,” says Nurse Manager Alex Kasmere, MSN, RN, CPEN, TCRN, EMTP, (above, right) who has been with the department since day one. “We hired 18 full-time nurses, two charge nurses, an administrative assistant, a unit secretary, and eight techs. We saw more than 18,000 patients.”
Kasmere says the partnership with Medical Director Elisabeth A. Rogers, MD, has been critical to the success of the Peds ED. “Dr. Rogers has brought in a great team of physicians who really want to take care of our kids,” he explains. “I definitely would not be able to do what I do without having her as a partner.”
While there’s still much work to be done, the Pediatric Emergency Department is serving more and more patients every day.
As the department expands, families are noticing the difference. “We’re building our patient population by word of mouth. When they get to us, they see the difference. I have parents who will say, ‘I’ll drive the extra hour and a half instead of being transferred,’” Kasmere recounts. “If a patient shows up, we’re going to take care of them. For us, a child will never just be a number.”