BY DANICA LLOYD CONTRIBUTIONS BY CARSON WEAVER
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Patient oload time in Cy-Fair
Reed said it takes about 33 minutes for a Cy-Fair Fire Department ambulance to ooad a patient at a local hospital before those rst responders are available to respond to the next emergency. During a natural disaster, the process can take four hours, he said. Before Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital opened in 2017, most ambulance trac went to what is now known as HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, Reed said. He believes adding hospital capacity along Cy-Fair’s main thorough- fare will “instantly” help relieve overloaded health care systems. “We operate at 100% capacity many months of the year, and as a result, … patients may wait for beds longer than we would like,” said Jim Brown, HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress CEO. “By adding this additional capacity, it aords us the opportunity to expedite services to those patients that are waiting for beds.”
Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital CEO Trent Fulin said this hospital will leverage articial intelligence, natural language processing and ambient technology as patients are seeking convenience in their health care. James Langabeer, professor of emergency medicine and public health at UTHealth Houston, said enrollment in biomedical informatics, which studies how data can help solve problems in health care delivery, has increased 50% in the last ve years. Health care demand will also rise as the population ages; Langabeer said 75% of the average person’s health expenses occur in their last ve years. “We’ve been working hard to do our part to ... get more students interested and through our programs into that eld,” Bair said.
18 minutes
Freestanding emergency room
33 minutes
In-district hospital
40 minutes
Out-of-district hospital
37 minutes
Specialty hospital
The national standard for patient o£oad time is less than 20 minutes .
SOURCE: CY¢FAIR FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY IMPACT
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