Patent attributes
The methods to provide emergency health care to patients with insurance entail creating a special care unit in a hospital and creating a contractual relationship between the special care unit and an association. The qualified patient is insured through the association and is provided with an indicator. An interface is provided for the qualified patient to request an actual time to be seen by the team; confirming the actual time; receiving the qualified patient with the indicator at the actual time, wherein the qualified patient is seen by the team in less processing time than the emergency department; evaluating the qualified patient within 30 minutes of the actual time to ascertain a medical problem; determining if the qualified patient stays in the special care unit or is to be transferred to the hospital's emergency department; treating the qualified patient based on the evaluation; and dispositioning the qualified patient.
