Background: In 2018, our facility opened a new 260,000 square-foot state-of-the-art ambulatory care facility. This new facility put many complex care specialists and advanced technology under one roof supporting a comprehensive, coordinated, and multidisciplinary approach to patient care…

Learning objective: Evaluate the development of an ambulatory-care based emergency response team (ERT)…

At a large expanding academic medical center with over 80 clinics, adult ambulatory care nurses are being expected to care for pediatric patients due to outpatient rapid expansion. These nurses did not have the pediatric emergency training needed for the ambulatory care setting…

Emergency medical events are historically a rare occurrence in the outpatient setting…

As the ambulatory care setting plays an increasingly vital role in health care, clinics are experiencing a rise in both patient volumes and acuity…

Data reveals a concerning pattern of delays in escalating care for patients requiring higher-level medical attention. The ambulatory care division is responsible for a variety of complex patient populations within a large pediatric healthcare system undergoing expansion…