Study of hospital relocation provides insights to aid in disaster planning

Monday, September 21, 2009 - 16:21 in Health & Medicine

Restricting elective surgeries, limiting incoming transfers and enhancing the efficiency of the discharge process helped one major hospital reduce capacity before a relocation without interrupting emergency or trauma services, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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