The tragic 2016 death of a woman in Somerville, Massachusetts, is now sparking change at hospitals across the state, making it easier for people to quickly find and get inside emergency rooms.
Finalized this month, the new rules require proper signs, audio-video intercoms at all prominent hospital doors, patient doors must be brightly lit with 24-hour surveillance and emergency departments must have a separate address for GPS if the location is not the same as the main hospital.
”When you’re not feeling well, when you’re panicked, when you’re with a family member who’s not feeling well, you’re not able to look around a massive campus, you really need the clearest direction that you can to get care,” Barber said. These are some of the first regulations of their kind in the U.S., thanks to DeMarco, who says it’s hard to celebrate given the death of his wife.
But DeMarco believes these first-in-the-nation regulations will save lives. As many as 3 million people visit Massachusetts emergency rooms at 75 acute care hospitals each year. ”Hospitals are complex places. They're confusing places no matter where you are," DeMarco said."I hope every state in New England especially looks at what we’ve done here.”This article tagged under:
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