CEPA Mission Statement & Values

Clinical excellence
To provide exceptional and comprehensive emergency care for all patients

Citizenship
To be accountable to each other and our patients

Diversity
To encourage an environment that supports all facets of emergency medicine including, but not limited to, research, education, and teaching while promoting unity within the group.

Leadership
To promote the evolution of emergency medicine as a specialty within all areas of the healthcare system and the community

Well-being
To foster well-being in our patients, our colleagues and ourselves

 

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CaRMS 2018

A big thank you to all of the wonderful candidates that took the time to interview with us this year for a spot in the Fraser Emergency Medicine Program!

We are very proud of our residency program and this video created by our current residents highlights just a few of the reasons why the Royal Columbian Hospital is an amazing place to work and train.

 

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A letter to the public from the Royal Columbian Hospital Emergency physicians.

 The Problem, Consequences and Solution

The Problem

The Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Emergency Department (ED) has over 50 patient stretchers. However most of the ED stretchers are filled with admitted patients who deserve to be in hospital beds outside of the ED – this is hospital overcrowding. Because of this there few properly equipped areas available for incoming emergency patients. As a result, Emergency Physicians and Nurses have been forced to examine and provide care in inadequate and unsafe areas such as the waiting room, lobby, hallways. Examinations are delayed and incomplete. Medications are often delayed or not given due to lack of monitoring. There is no privacy for patients in the hallway. All of these problems are not because of a problem in the ED, but because the hospital is overcrowded, something that is not under the control of ED Staff. ....please click on the link to read the entire letter.

 

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Hospital Overcrowding

Emergency department overcrowding, mortality and the 4-hour rule in Western Australia

Introduction of the 4-hour rule in Australia led to a reversal of overcrowding in three tertiary hospital EDs that coincided with a significant fall in the overall mortality rate in tertiary hospital data combined and in two of the three individual hospitals. ED overcrowding (as measured by 8-hour access block) at the tertiary hospitals improved dramatically, falling from above 40% in July 2009 to around 10% by early 2011, and presentations increased by 10%, while the mortality rate fell significantly (by 13%; 95% CI, 7%–18%; P < 0.001) from 1.12% to 0.98% between 2009–10 and 2010–11. Monthly mortality rates decreased significantly in two of the three tertiary hospitals concurrently with decreased access block and an increased proportion of patients admitted in under 4 hours.

 

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Editors Wanted!

We are looking for nurses and other ED Team members who would like to help us to contribute to the web site. We would like this site to be our own best resource for news, accessible from anywhere with Internet access (as opposed to the Intranet!). Contact Cimi and Adam at webmaster@rchemerg.com.

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