A computer implemented method for improving hospital revenues by creating a special care unit for retaining qualified patients, wherein the computer implemented method comprises the steps of
- a. procuring by a computer implemented method an indicator to become a qualified patient;
- wherein the indicator is selected from the group comprising a uniform, an association identification badge, an association trademark, a sticker with a unique identification mark, a corporation issued smart card, or combinations thereof, from a association wherein the indicator enables care to be provided within thirty minutes of an actual time;
- b. establishing a special care unit comprising at least one examination room, at least one interface to a computer with data storage and computer instructions executable on a computer in the data storage for scheduling actual times to be seen and computer instructions executable on a computer for accessing and downloading patient histories, and computer instructions executable on a computer for production of reports, at least one work area, and forming a team in a hospital having an emergency department for use by the qualified patient, wherein the team has a doctor and at least one member selected from the group comprising:
- a nurse, a clerk or combinations thereof;
- further wherein the special care unit provides services including:
- i. providing scheduling services for scheduling the actual time for an examination,
- ii. providing the examination,
- iii. providing at least one test with results enabling the doctor to provide an evaluation,
- iv. providing treatment based on the evaluation;
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- v. providing dispositioning of the qualified patient;
- c. providing the interface for the qualified patients, wherein the interface is selected from the group comprising a website, telephone service, telephone operator, pager, and combinations thereof;
- wherein the interface provides the qualified patient with a communication tool to request the actual time to be seen by the team;
- d. confirming by a computer to the qualified patients the actual time to be seen by the team;
- and providing a confirmation by a verbal confirmation, an email confirmation, a confirmation by pager, and combinations thereof;
- e. receiving the qualified patients with the indicator in the special care unit at the actual time;
- f. examining the qualified patient by the team within thirty minutes of the actual time;
- g. making the evaluation to either keep the qualified patient in the special care unit or to transfer the qualified patient to a higher level of care area of the emergency department;
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- h. in the special care unit, if no transfer to the higher level of care area is made, then treating the qualified patient by the team.