The 24/7 front door of the hospital — arrival and triage flow for walk-in and ambulance patients, surge and decontamination capacity, and safety against violence and elopement. These Articles cover the ED space program and adjacencies to imaging, lab, OR, and inpatient hand-up, plus the throughput simulation, activation dry-runs, and live-cutover strategy for a department that can never close.
Activation Dry-Runs, Throughput Simulation & Go-Live
Operational Readiness & 24/7 Live-Cutover Strategy
Patient & Staff Safety: Violence, Elopement & Infection Control
Surge, Disaster & Decontamination Operations
Adjacencies: Imaging, Lab, OR, ICU & Inpatient Hand-Up
Arrival Flow: Walk-In, Ambulance, Triage & Intake
ED Space Program, Capacity Sizing & Zoning
Fast-Track, Vertical-Patient & Results-Waiting Models
Behavioral-Health Safe Room & Decontamination
Isolation, EVD/Airborne & Pediatric ED Provisions
Resuscitation / Trauma Room Requirements
Treatment Bay & Universal-Room Design
FGI / EMTALA / Trauma-Designation Code Requirements