Between July and November, Ohio State diverted patients for approximately 378 total hours from the EDs, compared to just 49 hours for the same time period in 2013, according to the report.
Ohio State currently faces a backlog of patients who are in the emergency room waiting for an inpatient bed to become available, Thomas Terndrup, chairman of Ohio State’s emergency-medicine department, told the Dispatch.
Andrew Thomas, MD, CMO of Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, said in the report the backlog has increased due to an increase in patient transfers from other hospitals.
What’s more, the EDs have seen a 1.1 percent increase in visits so far this fiscal year over the previous year, according to the report.
Ohio State recently opened the Arthur G. James cancer hospital, which officials said would hopefully help ease the backlog, according to the report.
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