Lakeside Hospital Emergency Department
Eighteen rooms including:
- Four Clinical Decision Treatment Units (CDTU)
- Three advance treatment bays
- Three "fast-track" rooms, reserved for less critical patients who can be treated and released quickly – in most cases, less than an hour
- All of the rooms are private
- Cardiac care –16 rooms equipped to monitor cardiac patients
- Physicians – All are residency trained and/or board certified in emergency medicine.
- Nurses – All specially trained in emergency care
- Technology
- Digital X-ray and CAT scans, which almost instantaneously appear on the computer screen
- IBEX Patient tracking system which communicates in real-time where each patient is in the treatment process. This system also generates computerized discharge instructions and prescriptions.
- Wireless infrastructure – Patient can be registered at the bedside, so there is no need to wait before making the patient comfortable in a private room. Doctors and nurses also can begin evaluating the patient more quickly, even while registration is being processed. Medications can be ordered from the pharmacy without the physician leaving the patient’s room.
- All nurses, physicians, paramedics, and registrars will be linked by Spectralink phones, internal communication devices that work anywhere within the hospital.
- *The Omaha Fire Department’s catchment area for residents living in the following territories surrounding Lakeside Hospital includes:
- Northern boundary – Maple Street
- Eastern boundary – 132nd Street
- Southern boundary – Harrison Street
*Generally, the Omaha Fire Department allows patients to choose what hospital they wish to have treatment at. In the event that the patient is in critical condition, paramedics have the discretion of bringing the patient to the nearest hospital.
